George Armitage Miller Quotes
Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.
Quotes to Explore
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.
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The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.
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I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
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As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
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It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.
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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.
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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.
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We need to develop a robust set of tools - strategies and routines - that help us address student variance. It's easy to come to rely on two or three "trusty" instructional strategies like worksheets and lectures. Those are of little help in planning for a variety of student needs. As we develop a better toolbox, we're empowered to meet students where they are.
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The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.
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In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."
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Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.
