Richard Jefferson Quotes

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

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• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Nothing

• On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Strong

• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Tourism

• My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Pretty
  • Optimistic
  • Call

• I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Me
  • Optimistic
  • Go

• No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Reason
  • Brain

• It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Reason
  • Intuition

• Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Reason
  • Fact

• We should be optimistic about the future even though we have a complicated present.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • Future
  • Present
  • Optimistic

• Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Political
  • Military

• The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Music
  • America
  • Age

• Let optimists rule the world.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • Rule
  • Optimistic

• There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Question
  • Reason

• Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Up
  • Success
  • Giving

• I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Reason

• Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Success

• I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Help
  • Reason
  • Fact

• The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Important
  • Long
  • Reason

• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Think
  • Write
  • Luxury

• The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Gold
  • Weakness
  • Dollars

• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  

  F. William Engdahl
  • Democracy
  • Administration
  • Afghanistan

• I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

  

  Richard Jefferson
  • Reason
  • Optimistic