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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You don't have to go to Harvard to figure out that the Big East is the best league in the country. You don't have to be a genius. A dummy like me can figure that out. When I look at my coach of the year candidates, Jamie Dixon is in my top five. Jamie has done a fantastic job. He has lost some heartbreakers on the road, but that's because winning on the road in the Big East is so difficult. They've been able to win at home. And that's the key when you play in a tough league. You better win your home games.
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I remember when I was little, much younger than I was when I started modeling, people always said, 'Oh, you should be a model.' But I didn't like people telling me what to do... But I didn't plan to transform into an actress, either. It just happened.
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I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.
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I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.
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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.
