Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.

Cecelia Ahern

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• If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Journey
  • Take

• If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Time
  • Career
  • Change

• I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Always

• I'm a reclusive weirdo.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Weirdo
  • Reclusive

• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Particular
  • Associate
  • Ramp

• Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• An artisan busies himself with his work for three hours each day and spends nine hours in study.

  

  Maimonides
  • Work
  • Study

• The unconscious, which those who always speak of it least possess.

  

  Elias Canetti

• I sat very still, as befitted a small boy among strangers, staring wide-eyed into a world I did not know. I was six years old and my father was dying.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • World
  • Father
  • Small

• At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Great
  • Political
  • Religious

• URGENT SUBTLE CONCISE ROBUST

  

  Lucian Freud

• I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Life
  • Trying

• As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Technology

• I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.

  

  Billy Martin Good Charlotte
  • Real
  • True
  • Baseball

• Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Boss

• I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur.

  

  Anne Fadiman
  • Independent

• Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.

  

  David Green
  • Business
  • Faith
  • Law

• I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Bad
  • Wish
  • Football

• It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.

  

  Nick Baylis
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Approach

• On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Friends
  • Nature
  • Green

• Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Worry

• My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.'

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • Time
  • Music
  • Mind

• I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.

  

  Cecelia Ahern