Daniel Lubetzky Quotes
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
Quotes to Explore
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
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I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.
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The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
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Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.
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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.
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There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.
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I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.
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It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.
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In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.
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Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
