Ways Quotes

• I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced.

  

  Margaret Truman
  • Job
  • Political
  • President

• The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Woman
  • Ways
  • Circumvented

• I moved to Portland because Modest Mouse is there. I didn't necessarily mean to live there permanently, but I've got a really good feeling for it. The sensibility there really suits me. I happened to have grown up in Manchester, a city that was a pretty cool place to be a musician. It's close to Portland in a lot of ways.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Feeling
  • Musician
  • Portland

• The way the music business is changing, it’s good we can have it both ways.

  

  Ken Casey
  • Music
  • Ways
  • Changing

• I think one of the things about being around for a while and getting to know yourself is that when you do have these positive experiences, you don't take them for granted - you identify them and you make the most of them. I don't know - it's kind of cool getting old in a lot of ways.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Experiences
  • Ways
  • Granted

• There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

  

  Georges Pompidou
  • Man
  • Ways
  • Spoil

• We don't know what we are going to do with this. It's really random with all the ways that we're thinking. Some are very literal and some are very non-literal, but we have no idea where we're going right now.

  

  Dustin Kensrue
  • Thinking
  • Going
  • Ways

• Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

  

  Euripides
  • Judgment
  • Ways
  • Life Is Short

• I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself...

  

  Miranda July
  • Life
  • Spend
  • Inventing

• Around the world there are certain marital systems, certain physical systems, political systems, social systems, and all those things are kind of turned on their head but represented in various ways within "The Lobster."

  

  Colin Farrell
  • World
  • Political
  • System

• There are three ways to learn from our mistakes: the easy way, the hard way, and the tragic way. The easy way is learning from other people’s mistakes. The hard way is learning from our own. And the tragic way is not learning from either.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Learning
  • Mistakes
  • Ways

• I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Magic
  • Ways
  • Bullet

• When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Work
  • Ways
  • Eliminated

• No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Ways
  • Offence
  • Jostling

• There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.

  

  Rumi
  • People
  • Existence
  • Loving

• Some people are really surprised that I can sing different ways.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • People
  • Different
  • Sing

• Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.

  

  William Bridges
  • People
  • Something
  • Used

• In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • True
  • Impact
  • Ineffectual

• I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Make
  • Ways
  • Lightbulb

• Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Book
  • Secret
  • Ways

• There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

  

  Ali Farahnakian
  • Performance
  • Ways
  • Arriving

• Training and learning a new skill is all about repetition. With this in mind be careful not to get repetitive to the point of boredom. A coach's challenge is to find ways of doing similar skills differently

  

  Catherine Cox
  • Challenge
  • Skills
  • Coach

• In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Important
  • Planets
  • Mobility

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