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

• It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Hunter

• I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.

  

  Larry Wall

• 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

• Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • World
  • Real

• 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 decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

  

  Chris Evans
  • America
  • Fear

• 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'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

  

  Megan Fox
  • People
  • Hate

• 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

• I only have control over one person and that’s myself. And I feel good about it.

  

  Mac Danzig
  • Good
  • Control
  • Feels

• Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

  

  Confucius
  • Words
  • Virtue
  • Appearance

• There are some people who don't realize what it is they are doing to others until they are paid back in their own coin. But those are not the worst. The worst are those whose unkindness is calculated.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Coin
  • Unkindness

• Africa’s progress will also depend on security and peace - because an essential part of human dignity is being safe and free from fear.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Peace

• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Child
  • Simplicity
  • Sovereign

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

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Simplicity
  • Context
  • Frills