Eula Biss Quotes

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

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• I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Strong

• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • Mind
  • Game

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Picture

• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Mind
  • Vice
  • Vulgar

• Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Opportunity
  • Study
  • Child

• Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Art
  • Opportunity

• Working together, we will continue to lay the foundation for a new generation of inclusive economic growth, expand economic opportunity for middle-class families, and ensure that innovative businesses have the support they need to thrive and grow in the years to come.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Support

• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Mind
  • True

• Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Opportunity
  • Training
  • motivation

• Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Let

• Import and substituting imports with domestic production are a big opportunity. With a devaluation of the rupee, imports get expensive, and for Indian manufacturers, this creates a huge opportunity.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Opportunity
  • Big
  • Expensive

• The engaged mind stays sharp and retains tremendous capacity.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Mind

• Perched up high on a rooftop,like a bird I'm having evil thoughts,A black hood covers my faceas death flows through my mind at its own pace.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • High

• Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Mind
  • Real
  • May

• All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

  

  Bob Ney
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Peace

• A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Mind
  • Mine
  • Caliber

• 'Rock Bottom Riser' by Smog - I was just in Europe, and my jet lag never really went away. I wasn't sleeping very much. Then one night, my girlfriend saw a Bill Callahan show in L.A. and took a video of that song and sent it to me. I was just listening to it over and over - it was comforting.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Song
  • Night
  • Rock

• Nobody tells you how to be famous.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Famous

• I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Real
  • Waiting

• Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • Strong
  • Culture
  • Small

• The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

  

  Eula Biss
  • Mind
  • Opportunity