Brooks Hays Quotes

Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles.

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• Experience by itself is not science.

  

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• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

  

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• Religion is induced insanity.

  

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• Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.

  

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• I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.

  

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• I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

  

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• Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

  

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• To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.

  

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• I know how demanding the process of creation is.

  

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• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

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• Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

  

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• Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.

  

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• We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.

  

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• I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

  

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• That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.

  

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• The emergence of civilization has everywhere followed a definable sequence.

  

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• The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

  

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• You don't want a movie to have a lot of awards and no audience.

  

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• The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.

  

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• The second time around, I'll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn't care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

  

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• Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles.

  

  Brooks Hays
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Mouths