Douglas Adams Quotes
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Quotes to Explore
-
I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
-
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
-
You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
-
I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
-
To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
-
Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
-
In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
-
It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
-
We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
-
I would never walk off any show.
-
I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
-
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
-
If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
-
We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
-
We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
-
We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
-
I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
-
At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.
-
What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.
-
I had never really co-written. I thought it was weak or something if I needed to collaborate.
-
It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.
-
Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.
-
I'm quite gregarious. But when it comes to relationships, I mean, I'm no good at it. I suck at it. And people say I'm way too hard on myself, but I always feel like somebody else is going to say it if I don't. Why not just beat them to the punch so it doesn't hurt so much?
-
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
