John Rawls Quotes

Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

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• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Time
  • Small
  • Sweet

• You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • You
  • Play

• I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Way
  • Better

• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Shadows

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• 'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Time
  • Theatre
  • Week

• My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Children

• I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • She
  • Road

• Control your own destiny or someone else will.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Control
  • Destiny

• The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • Finding
  • Indians

• Our psychology is … a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. It Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Psychology

• I grew up in Middle America and in the suburbs...

  

  Anna Sui
  • Up
  • America

• To be perfectly frank, I really do not.

  

  Bruce Lee

• I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Believe
  • Serious
  • Study

• It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'

  

  Athenaeus
  • Men
  • Lost

• I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Great
  • Character
  • Identity

• Every time you get told you get a part, it's just wonderfully soothing and incredibly fantastic and healing. You have a bad day at school, you come home and get told you've got a part in something, and it's just like, 'Yeah, it's all worth it'.

  

  Charlie Rowe
  • Time
  • School
  • Home

• My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Father

• I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

  

  John T. Flynn

• It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Learning

• The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Age
  • Mom
  • Advice

• Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

  

  John Rawls