Elizabeth Thornton Quotes

When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

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• For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Learn
  • Doing
  • Before

• Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • College

• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Society
  • Health
  • Care

• I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Intelligent
  • River
  • Reflected

• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Human

• A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Father
  • Like
  • Baby

• I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Me
  • Eye

• I have a relatively good track record.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Good
  • Record
  • Track

• Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Important
  • Done
  • Lies

• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!

  

  Becky G
  • Song
  • Know
  • Get

• When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Quality

• I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Never
  • Bored
  • Chameleon

• YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Business
  • Think
  • Model

• In my film 'Queen', there was a funny moment with the bra. My director called and said they are blurring the bra. They said it is vulgar. Our director was furious about it. We are artistes... We see props as they are. A woman's bra is not a danger to the society.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Society
  • Funny
  • Woman

• We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Party

• Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

  

  Bruce Springsteen
  • People
  • Music

• Colored men of Tennessee, humble and unworthy as I am, if no better shall be found I will indeed be your Moses and lead you through the Red Sea of war and bondage to a fairer future of liberty and peace. I speak now as one who feels the world his country and all who love equal rights his friends.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Country

• I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Believe
  • Moments
  • Independent

• Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Character
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • American
  • Essence
  • Moral urge

• When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton