Ursula Goodenough Quotes

We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.

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• 'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • World
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Song
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Perfect

• I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Club

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • War
  • Path

• This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

  

  Ed Helms
  • May
  • Job
  • Nature

• There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Love
  • Support
  • Emotional

• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Forgiveness

• Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Two

• I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Books
  • Holland
  • Publicize

• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Door
  • Yourself
  • Snow

• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Day
  • Start
  • Early

• Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Foundation

• Courtroom dramas can be boring.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Boring
  • Dramas
  • Courtroom

• I write in the weirdest places. I wrote 'Girl on the Coast' in my car with the kids in the back and Eric driving. I just wrote the whole thing on my phone. I just typed out the lyrics.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Kids
  • Girl
  • Car

• The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it - and that's a lethal combination.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Rock

• I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own.

  

  Ben Whishaw
  • People
  • Words
  • Interesting

• Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Death

• We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Alone