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

• I hate jeans for no reason.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Hate
  • Reason
  • Jeans

• 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

• Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Reason
  • Mad
  • Rage

• 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

• I'm all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.

  

  Kyla Pratt
  • Life
  • Positive
  • 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

• Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Reason
  • Dogs
  • Cars

• It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.

  

  Rupert Penry-Jones
  • Remember
  • Acting
  • Designer

• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

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

  

  Richard Jefferson
  • Reason
  • Optimistic