Beverley Jones Quotes

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

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• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Artist

• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Thinking
  • Advice
  • Consistent

• People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do … There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.

  

  Ben Stiller
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, your thinking, Hey, it's kind of cool being single.

  

  Breckin Meyer
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Relationship

• You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Thinking
  • May

• I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I never want to change. I get nervous about that... people thinking that I've changed just because the circumstances of my life have.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.

  

  Bing Gordon
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is cool!' The swagger he had really helped my confidence, because he really made me think that a white boy could make music like this.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

  

  David Joseph Schwartz
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

  

  Alcaeus
  • Thinking
  • Pain
  • Grief

• I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking, 'This is pretty awesome - is this really a job you can have?' This led me toward a career as an academic, although it took me until college to realise that economics was the right field.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Remember

• Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.

  

  Chris Raschka
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Important

• If someone tells you that George Bush is not the 43rd president of the United States, they might be engaged in wishful thinking, or denial, but if they make that claim, it's either true or false! And you can assess that, regardless of whether there's an omniscient narrator, or an unreliable narrator, or it's shot in vérité, or it's manipulated, it's agitprop, whatever! It makes no difference! It's a style!

  

  Errol Morris
  • Thinking
  • Regardless
  • Narrator

• Good is often the enemy of best.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Good
  • Enemy

• The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

  

  Allen Grossman
  • Face
  • Poem
  • Sings

• What fun it had been, having an admirer even for that little while. No wonder people liked admirers. They seemed, in some strange way, to make one come alive.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Fun
  • Wonder
  • Admirers

• We all enjoyed the success of Rumours obviously.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Success

• Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

  

  Beverley Jones
  • Thinking
  • Safe
  • Romance