Sue Grafton Quotes

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Sue Grafton

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• In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Acting
  • Find
  • Realistic

• Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Live
  • Community
  • Communication

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Water

• So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Song
  • Man
  • Dance

• Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Game
  • Chess
  • Practical

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Way
  • Suffering

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Management
  • Partnerships

• I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Idea

• So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Women
  • Why

• I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Help
  • Culture
  • Justice

• Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.

  

  Rachel True
  • Life
  • Why
  • Happy

• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Parents
  • Army
  • Very

• I've got a serious-looking head.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Head
  • Got

• I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Up
  • Money
  • Decisions

• I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Real

• Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Think
  • Attention

• Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Ideas
  • Easy
  • Execution