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.Carl Honore
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Nathalie Sarraute -
Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Katarina Witt -
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
Malala Yousafzai -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
Salman Rushdie
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
Cara Buono -
I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
Famke Janssen -
I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
Calvin Johnson -
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.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
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.
Lance Morrow -
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.
Barbra Streisand
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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.
Wendell Pierce -
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.
Barack Obama -
I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
Felix Baumgartner -
I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
Damon Galgut -
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
Fidel Castro -
Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
J. D. Vance
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Unless one believes in a superhuman reason which directs evolution, one is bound to believe in a reason inherent in humanity, a motive power transcending that of each separate people, just as the power of the organism transcends that of the organ. This reason increases in proportion as the unity of mankind becomes established.
Ellen Key -
Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.
Douglas Wilder -
As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.
Cliff Burton Metallica -
There's always going to be people who say, 'This ain't country.' But that's fine; that's how it is. Those same people aren't listening to Sam Hunt, aren't listening to FGL. But obviously, a lot of people are.
Chris Lane -
I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.
Keith Jarrett -
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.
Carl Honore