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

• Many of us have questions about what Trump's positions really are. We want to make sure we are on board with each other.

  

  John Fleming
  • Trump

• Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Forever

• The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

  

  S. N. Goenka

• When the signal reached LIGO from a collision of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration was able to both identify the candidate event within minutes and perform the detailed analysis that convincingly demonstrated that gravitational waves exist.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Black
  • Strong
  • Collaboration

• Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Food
  • Eyes

• Been tumbled smooth by waves

  

  Claire Cook
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