Scott Anderson Quotes

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

Scott Anderson

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• The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Decision
  • Mistake
  • End

• Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • People
  • Truth
  • Respect

• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Moments

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Change
  • Chance
  • Changes

• The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Decision
  • Right
  • Judiciary

• I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Decision
  • New York

• In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Decision

• Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

  Ford Frick
  • Decision
  • Sound
  • Anger

• It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Focus
  • Tough
  • Butterfly

• We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Moments
  • Independence

• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

  

  Mae West
  • Chance
  • Second Chance

• A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Decision

• I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.'

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Men
  • Want
  • Know

• At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • History
  • Future
  • Black

• 'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• In my second inaugural address, I said that if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. It is gratifying to see that principle enshrined into law by this decision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Decision

• In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Decision

• Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • Butterfly

• It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not

  

  Saul Perlmutter
  • Kind
  • Chance
  • Fate

• Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

  

  Stephen Graham
  • Life
  • Science
  • Events

• There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Real
  • Kiss

• I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Eyes
  • Gold
  • Sky

• If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

  

  David Deida
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Truth

• History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

  

  Scott Anderson
  • Moments
  • Decision
  • Chance