Orson Scott Card Quotes

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

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• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Women
  • Independent
  • Strength

• The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Know
  • Ideas
  • Idea

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• I love cooking and baking.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Baking

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Moment

• Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Someone

• Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Late
  • Begin
  • Too Late

• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Business
  • Driving
  • Horizon

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Breakfast
  • Bread
  • Diet

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Society
  • Satisfied
  • Top

• Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • School
  • Change

• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Three
  • Train
  • Nervous

• If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Heart
  • Love
  • For Her

• The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • Women

• A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive passage clamped and unclamped from her body. My parents would watch over it, watch over what went into and out of it, and as I grew up, I would be expected to carry on their watching by myself.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

  

  Joan of Arc
  • God
  • Die

• I suppose this is peasant food. You know, the workers in the fields needed these heavy dumplings and things to eat, but God don't offer them to me...

  

  John Banville
  • God
  • Food

• Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another guy moves in ,and he has his say - and it's often just the opposite. The result is either critical acclaim or critical murder, and neither has any bearing on my music or direction.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Music
  • Guy

• The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Mind
  • True