Carl Honore Quotes
Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
Quotes to Explore
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.
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When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn't have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.
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When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
