Gary Taubes Quotes

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.

Gary Taubes

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• That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Different
  • Play
  • Joy

• Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Hair
  • Fool
  • Disney

• Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Yourself

• Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Life
  • Important
  • Health

• Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Purpose
  • Yourself
  • Mighty

• Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• 'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Support

• Be yourself. And every person is unique.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Unique
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Three

• The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Simple

• The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Yourself

• Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Character
  • Giving
  • Yourself

• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Fool

• When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Work
  • Why
  • Yourself

• In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Man
  • Attention

• Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.

  

  Rumi
  • Die
  • Yourself
  • Argue

• That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do - so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Wish
  • Magic
  • Yourself

• My parents are actors and never brought work home. I didn't even know what they did until I was about 10 years old. We never talked about it.

  

  Wyatt Russell
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Brought

• I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Game
  • Thought
  • Common Sense

• For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Bound

• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.

  

  Gary Taubes
  • Yourself
  • Fool
  • Principle