Norman Cousins Quotes

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

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• 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 couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • World
  • Proud
  • Broadway

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Want

• The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Work
  • Long
  • Bed

• I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • Country
  • She

• Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

• I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Work

• As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American
  • Planning

• I see things completely differently now.

  

  Mary Pierce

• I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood in and out of hospital having operations.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Childhood
  • Balance

• I have publicly talked about Mexico's need to open ourselves up to the participation of the private sector in the energy sector, however this doesn't mean privatizing state-run companies.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Up
  • Energy

• I used to be a Geico Caveman for live events. I was a corporate mascot. It was the silliest job. It was actually awesome and fun, but it was retarded.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Live
  • Job
  • Fun

• The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • People
  • Perception

• I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Risk

• There's so much in the media that's not the truth.

  

  Ed Schultz
  • Truth

• Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book 'for boys' or 'for girls' is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.

  

  Marie Lu
  • Different
  • Book

• The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Future

• There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• I always liked circuses, so I would have enjoyed that.

  

  Lee Hazlewood

• Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.

  

  Alexey Suetin
  • Play
  • Mistakes
  • Routine

• Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Optimistic
  • Pessimism
  • Wasting