Dean Hawkes Quotes

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

Dean Hawkes

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• In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Old
  • Buildings

• Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Mental

• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Youth

• The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Yourself

• For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Marriage
  • Find
  • Right Person

• A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Party
  • Missing
  • Author

• I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Books
  • Scary

• All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Innovation

• They are women who are standing on their feet in spite of their circumstances, not because of it. Think of how the world can be a much better place if, for a change, we have a better equality, we have equality, we have a representation and we understand war, both from the front-line and the back-line discussion.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Single

• I write about people I think are interesting, and then I discuss it with my editor, and she decides if she thinks it will be interesting to children as well. If I have no great interest in the subject, I find the work to be terribly boring. And if I find the person interesting, I love the research part and, by extension, the writing as well.

  

  David A. Adler
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• He's one of the best fighters in the UFC. I never thought I'd face Nick Diaz. I've watched all his fights.

  

  Anderson Silva

• My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Real
  • Father
  • Chicago

• I try to learn from Falcao, and Manu Riviere as well - his movement is excellent - it's really good for me. I need to work on my movement and my finishing, but seeing these guys on a regular basis gives me a benchmark.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Good
  • Work

• Hollywood is full of men who need wraparound mirrors so that they never have a moment when they can't check themselves out. I love guys who don't worry about what they look like, who aren't aware of how attractive they are.

  

  Marisa Coughlan
  • Men
  • Worry

• I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Up
  • Strong

• Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Knowledge
  • Light

• My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

  

  Eric Bana
  • Writing

• Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Knowledge
  • Hand
  • Revolution

• Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

  

  Tim Scott
  • Policy
  • Workplace
  • Fairness

• Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

  

  Dean Hawkes
  • Knowledge
  • Worry
  • Decisions