Elizabeth Bear Quotes

Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we’re basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us.

Elizabeth Bear

• Relationship
• Learned
• Hierarchy
• Primates
• Securing

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• Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Experience
  • You
  • Paint

• If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • American
  • History

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Scared
  • Horror
  • Watch

• I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Television

• There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Life
  • Baby
  • Daily

• My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Party

• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • War
  • Technology

• I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Trying
  • Story
  • Photography

• The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Job
  • Game
  • Team

• The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

  

  Al Alvarez
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Opportunity

• There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

  

  Denis Diderot

• I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.

  

  Arthur Smith

• I think, what I would communicate to people, if you are really keen in helping the world, you could spend so much quality time in terms of coaching, learning, providing great energy to the social entrepreneurs.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Different
  • Perspective

• I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and trying to rewrite it.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• When you learn how to play an instrument, you spend a lot of your time practicing, which keeps you occupied. Music passes your time. As you're going through life, it's something to enjoy. If you can be a part of it, that's even better.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Music
  • Learn
  • Enjoy

• Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we’re basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Relationship
  • Learned
  • Hierarchy