William James Quotes
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.William James
Quotes to Explore
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
Natalia Makarova -
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Victoria Woodhull -
I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
Yair Lapid -
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban -
I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
Indira Gandhi -
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
Karl A. Menninger -
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
Ted Olson -
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama -
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup -
'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
Magnus Scheving -
In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
Sam Yagan -
When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
M. J. Rose -
Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand -
I've just always been a bit of a dork.
Nate Silver
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant -
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
Balthazar Getty -
Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry: we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
William James