Carl Honore Quotes
The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
Quotes to Explore
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
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Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.
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To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
