Claire Cook Quotes

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• Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Long
  • Political
  • Change

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake. But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that’s not very cool. It’s not just selfish, it’s kinda sick and unhealthy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Friend
  • Cool
  • Sick

• A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Friend

• Power may be defined as the production of intended effects.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Power

• Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • God

• If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Good
  • Real

• If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

  

  Future
  • World
  • Cool

• There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.

  

  Luke Nosek
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I don't have time to date.

  

  Jared Kushner
  • Time

• The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

  

  Jayne Meadows
  • People
  • Obstacles

• I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Lost
  • Cold

• For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Time
  • Important

• If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Exercise
  • Yoga

• The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Important
  • Relationship

• The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • World

• What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Violence
  • Foreign Rule

• If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Up
  • Thinking

• It is not good for ordinary people to say, 'I am He.' The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves? The upshot of the whole thing is that, no matter what path you follow, yoga is impossible unless the mind becomes quiet. The mind of a yogi is under his control; he is not under the control of his mind.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• When I first moved to Vail, it was like I was a little celebrity. You know, everyone knew my accomplishments. I was a young, fast teenager and making waves in the ski world. And it was really cool.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • World
  • Cool
  • Celebrity

• Been tumbled smooth by waves

  

  Claire Cook
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