Elliott Sober Quotes

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

Elliott Sober

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• Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Ultimate

• For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Together
  • Freedom

• I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Time
  • Career
  • Past

• Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.

  

  John Burroughs
  • World
  • Present
  • Supernatural

• My advice on firing is simple: Treat that person the same way you'd want to be treated if you were in that situation. They're still a good person, just not the right fit. So how do you help them move on in a productive way that allows them to maintain their dignity?

  

  Mary Barra
  • Good
  • Help
  • Simple

• For the chorus of 'Secrets,' we used The Romantics' 'Talking in Your Sleep' and 'Pale Shelter' by Tears for Fears. It's like hip-hop: just grab it.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Sleep
  • Tears

• If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.

  

  David Christian
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• I would tell any aspiring designer to take the time to experience everything they can to really get a feel for what direction they want to go in. And most importantly, let your passion and your gut lead you.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Passion

• I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Inspired

• If you're climbing big routes that'll take you 16 hours, or, like, El Capitan, you have to take something like a big, robust sandwich. Climbing isn't like running or triathlons, where you have to constantly be eating blocks, gels, and pure sugar. Climbing is relatively slow, so you can pretty much eat anything and digest it as you climb.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Pretty
  • Running

• Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.

  

  Bobby Heenan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Morning
  • Gym
  • Workout

• I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation's great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation's great public servants.

  

  Joe Andrew
  • Great
  • Believe

• A president cannot grow a long-term lack of trust in someone with whom they had full confidence the day before.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Long
  • Trust
  • Confidence

• Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds.

  

  Mary Daly
  • Music
  • Organization
  • Feminist

• The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

  

  Maximilien Robespierre
  • People
  • Believe
  • Nature

• I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.

  

  Jonathan Cain
  • Waiting

• The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Motivated
  • Clear
  • Accomplish

• Handsome is that handsome does.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• The assertion that art may be good art and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people is extremely unjust, and its consequences are ruinous to art itself...it is the same as saying some kind of food is good but most people can't eat it.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Done
  • Personality

• And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Writing
  • Team
  • Simplicity

• In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Simplicity
  • Context
  • Frills