William H. Calvin Quotes

Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

William H. Calvin

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• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Help
  • Woman
  • Fly

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Enemy
  • Will
  • Worst

• If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moving

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Careful

• I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Professional
  • Athlete
  • Go

• You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Good
  • Long
  • Learn

• If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
  • Day
  • Watching

• When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Husband

• Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Women
  • Character
  • Society

• Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Stop

• No one actually knows how popular you are or how people think of you until and unless a few of the people who like your work walk up to you and let you know that you are really good. You can see the honesty in their eyes.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.

  

  Anthony Holden

• As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Real
  • Technology

• When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Bad
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• By taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Alone

• Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Opinion

• I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Hope

• The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Good
  • Women

• Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

  

  William H. Calvin
  • Growth
  • Atmosphere
  • Climate