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I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

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• When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • People
  • World
  • Optimistic

• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Country
  • American
  • Political

• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Know
  • Path
  • New

• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Men
  • Moon
  • Comparison

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• 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

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Leadership
  • Ever
  • Replace

• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Again
  • Public Domain

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Live
  • Chance
  • United States

• I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Lost

• No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Heart
  • True
  • Wish

• According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship in our lives. As our lives unfold, our biological health becomes a living, breathing biographical statement that conveys our strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Book
  • Energy
  • Weakness

• Somehow, I always knew I would get married by the time I was 27. Even in college, I had this weird thing in my head that I would get married when I was 27, and hopefully my career would be stable, and I'll have kids by 30. And that's exactly what has happened.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Career

• I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Ethics