Lewis Carroll Quotes

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Lewis Carroll

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• As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Sense

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Important
  • Person
  • Luck

• Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Take Care

• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Beautiful
  • Passion
  • Sense

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Change
  • Care
  • Take Care

• I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Arms
  • Crowd

• People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Decision

• The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Sense
  • Nonsense

• I think Hillary is going to be more hawkish perhaps than Obama. Perhaps more hawkish than Trump. Trump, though, is really a windshield wiper. He says one thing that makes sense and then says something that doesn't make sense.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Trump
  • Sense

• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Ambition
  • Sense

• Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Confidence
  • Listening
  • Pride

• You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Sense

• In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Spiritual
  • Practice
  • Goal

• The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Politics
  • Sense

• When we talk about decision-making, we usually focus just on the immediate payoff of a single decision—and if you treat every decision as if it were your last, then indeed only exploitation makes sense. But over a lifetime, you’re going to make a lot of decisions. And it’s actually rational to emphasize exploration—the new rather than the best, the exciting rather than the safe, the random rather than the considered—for many of those choices, particularly earlier in life.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Sense

• My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • Job
  • Camera

• Instead of asking for help, I just dig in and do everything myself.

  

  Klayton Albert Celldwelle
  • Helping
  • Asking

• I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Happy
  • Alone
  • Sex

• And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • Community
  • Labor
  • Allies

• Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Sense
  • Sounds
  • Take Care