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.
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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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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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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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If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.
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When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.
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Believe it or not, but 'White Heat' and 'Little Caesar' keep dancing around in my brainpan while I'm writing 'Moonshine.'
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The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.
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People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.
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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.
