Karin Tidbeck Quotes

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

Karin Tidbeck

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• The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Opportunity
  • Wanted
  • Heat

• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Fiction
  • Fan
  • Historical

• Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Always
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• 'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • School
  • City

• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Ignorance

• You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Grow

• If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Home
  • Change
  • Sweater

• To go back means defeat.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Back
  • Go
  • Defeat

• I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Bird

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Life
  • Responsible
  • Chemistry

• I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

  

  Kanye West
  • Book
  • Autograph
  • Non-Reader

• I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn't believe in myself.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Believe
  • Universe

• Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

  

  Linda Cardellini

• Fear usually looks like anger.

  

  Krista Tippett
  • Fear

• Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • True
  • Cutting
  • Insurance

• I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• If you started listening to me in the same time we started rapping, we're aging together.

  

  Offset Migos
  • Time
  • Together
  • Listening

• Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

  

  Karin Tidbeck
  • Time
  • Built
  • Consensus