Herbert Spencer Quotes

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Herbert Spencer

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• Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Plate

• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Friends
  • History

• I don't do negative things.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Things
  • Negative

• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Way
  • Tools
  • Depend

• In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • You
  • Everything
  • Without

• The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Study

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Children
  • Mother

• There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Game
  • Religion
  • Peaceful

• Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Nothing
  • More

• I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Thought

• I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Song
  • Never
  • Same

• The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • History

• When I'm not on the road, I try to intake about 300 grams of protein a day, which is a lot. I got really into how your body absorbs it and how you feel and how crazy it is when you intake that much food and actually feel better, your brain works better, and you actually lose weight even though you're eating more. It's so methodical.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Food
  • Crazy
  • Brain

• I'm definitely a city kid.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • City

• So many actors wear wigs nowadays. Besides, if someone is hiring me because of how I wear my hair, I don't want to work with them anyway.

  

  Maria Bello
  • Work
  • Hair

• As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

  

  Danny Bonaduce
  • Job
  • Food
  • Dad

• The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Fall
  • Animal

• Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Stuff
  • Works

• One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Great
  • Men
  • Power

• I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'

  

  Annie Golden
  • Why
  • She
  • Business

• Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Opinion
  • Feelings
  • Instinct