Evelyn Underhill Quotes

Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.

Evelyn Underhill

• Imagination
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• Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • American
  • Impact

• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Same

• When all are wrong, everyone is right.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Everyone

• It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Trying
  • Power

• The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Information
  • Search
  • New

• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Speak
  • Excited

• I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Like
  • Same
  • Two

• The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Best

• Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Dangerous

• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • People
  • Me
  • Years

• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Like
  • Silence
  • Word

• I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Play
  • Knew
  • Villain

• Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Real
  • Small
  • Doing

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Easy

• What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Always
  • Teach
  • Consciousness

• The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Know
  • Find
  • Library

• If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • She
  • Girlfriend

• In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Mind
  • Perfect
  • Imagination

• Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Men
  • America

• I am at work on a girl. It is quite simple a girl getting up on the edge of her bed and pulling on her stockings. The bed is whitish, and in addition there are white sheets, a white nightdress, a bedside table with a white cover, white curtains and a blue wall. as model for his painting 'Morning', 1884

  

  Edvard Munch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Girl

• I was a little boy who watched 'Solid Gold' every week and wanted to be a 'Solid Gold' dancer. And I would do very in-depth reenactments of 'Grease 2' and 'West Side Story' with my sister Natalie in our garage. I was a very theatrical kid.

  

  Andrew Rannells
  • Boy
  • Gold
  • Sister

• Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Imagination
  • Never Forget