Sharon Begley Quotes
The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.
Quotes to Explore
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
Umberto Eco
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
Karan Mahajan
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
Earl King
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
Quincy Jones
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For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?
Andrea Dworkin
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Palabras que me dijeron en otros tiempos, las oigo hoy.
Antonio Porchia
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I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.
Ken Liu
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
Denis Diderot
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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
Bob Barr
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The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
Matt Drudge
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
Charles Baudelaire
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I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.
Chloe Kim
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You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.
Dave Morris
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
David Brainerd
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I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.
Derek Luke
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I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'
Donald Byrd
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I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.
Andrew Scott
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I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
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If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.
Margaret Wertheim
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I've always emulated her work ethic because she was one of the few skaters that didn't lose her temper, that would have a bad day, but have a great attitude, come back and try again. That was a huge lesson for me to learn.
Sasha Cohen
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While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent.
Ory Okolloh
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The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.
Sharon Begley