Jimmy Carter Quotes

Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you.

Jimmy Carter

• Human being
• Forgiving

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• I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

  

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• I like retirement.

  

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• Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

  

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• Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

  

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• One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.

  

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• I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

  

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• Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

  

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• Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

  

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• People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

  

  Auguste Renoir
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• My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?

  

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• Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

  

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• The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

  

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• What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

  

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• There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

  

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• There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very, very serious, and what comes out of it is things that are quite friendly, gay, and sometimes even amusing. [Chaim] Soutine tried to work like Rembrandt, and yet there is nothing of Rembrandt in his pictures.

  

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• Plays can outlast even the opinions of the chief film critic of The New York Times and that reviews, although they feel devastating in the immediate moment, are not remotely as significant as the significance you endow them with on the day that they appear.

  

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• We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

  

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• democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

  

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• Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Human being
  • Forgiving