Avinash Dixit Quotes

You might think that having more options is always a good thing. But thinking strategically, you can often do better by cutting off options.

Avinash Dixit

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
  • Meaning

• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Sleeping
  • Trait

• It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Dad

• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Style

• The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Violence
  • Ego

• The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Girlfriend

• It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Time
  • High
  • Environment

• If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Career
  • Single

• I'm so glad that the peg-leg jeans thing is over. I'm over that, and I don't know why people think that the boyfriend jean looks good on everyone. Maybe if you're really tall and thin you can pull it off, or pull it off better than most. But being only five-foot-one and being more of a curvy girl, boyfriend jeans aren't the most flattering.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Thankful

• In a way, 'Mamma Mia!' was such a left-field thing for me.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd

• All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Words

• I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Professional

• When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Songs
  • Fan
  • I Write

• Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

  

  John Berger
  • Past
  • Present
  • Opinion

• I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • College

• After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

  

  Miroslav Volf
  • Thinking
  • Prayer
  • Devotion

• If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never ceases to provoke, view Israel's mere existence as a continuing act of aggression, then Hezbollah has indeed shown that it can initiate conflict, resist, and survive.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Light

• You might think that having more options is always a good thing. But thinking strategically, you can often do better by cutting off options.

  

  Avinash Dixit
  • Thinking
  • Cutting
  • Options