Brian Christian Quotes

Don’t always consider all your options. Don’t necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. Make a mess on occasion. Travel light. Let things wait. Trust your instincts and don’t think too long. Relax. Toss a coin.

Brian Christian

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• Relax
• Outcome
• Occasion

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• It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • World
  • Emotions
  • Mysterious

• Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Management
  • Chicago

• Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Old

• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Business
  • Past

• One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Christian
  • Years
  • Favourite

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • World
  • Different
  • Money

• It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Passion
  • Inspiration

• My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Me

• The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Real
  • Fair
  • Valley

• The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • College
  • Advice
  • Dreams

• The show has become my therapy.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Show
  • Become
  • Therapy

• Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Unknown
  • Known
  • Else

• A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Will
  • Once
  • Take Advantage

• In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kind

• I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

  

  Pete Rozelle
  • Time
  • Job
  • Bad

• The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reality
  • Beginning
  • Moral

• You humans act so strange. Everything you create is used to destroy.

  

  Luc Besson

• In the heartlands of Islam, from Saudi mansions to ISIS dungeons, there are still slaves, laboring, beaten, bought, sold, raped and disposed of in Mohammed's name.

  

  Louie Gohmert

• Don’t always consider all your options. Don’t necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. Make a mess on occasion. Travel light. Let things wait. Trust your instincts and don’t think too long. Relax. Toss a coin.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Trust
  • Relax
  • Outcome