Chip Heath Quotes
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
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It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
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Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.
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When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
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There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.
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This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.
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Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
