Ray Stevens Quotes
The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.Ray Stevens
Quotes to Explore
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
Tamra Davis -
I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
Mackenzie Davis -
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
Jack Ma -
Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
Octavio Paz -
You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
Laura Spencer -
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
Harrison Salisbury
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.
Damien Hirst -
Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.
Ben Carson -
I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?
Bono U2 -
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
Antoni Gaudi -
I do love the evolution of people in general. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone progresses and evolves in life.
Khloe Kardashian
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Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
Deepak Chopra -
It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
Astro Teller -
Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.
David Mamet -
I want to live a very positive and optimistic life that has a wonderful outlook on the future and the impact that I will have on the world and the people around me.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven -
Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.
Bikram Choudhury -
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
Aleksandar Hemon
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I love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard.
Paula Abdul -
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
Kenneth Noland -
We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.
Phil Klay -
A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
Gary Hamel -
The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.
Ray Stevens