Elliott Sober Quotes

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

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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

• 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

• 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

• I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Time
  • World
  • Desire

• I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Stories
  • Regret
  • Albums

• Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Truth

• I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • World
  • Proud
  • Lonely

• In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Character
  • Book

• 'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • Beautiful
  • Simplicity

• There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Thankful

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

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Simplicity
  • Context
  • Frills