Reason Quotes

• Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Team
  • Expectations

• Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Observation
  • Method
  • Experiments

• Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Reason
  • Humans
  • Increase

• Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Reason
  • Should
  • Masters

• If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • God
  • Evil
  • Fail

• Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this the vote on the Iraq war through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'

  

  Tony Blair
  • War
  • Couple
  • Struggle

• And not to mean that I think I'm some special person, but I think we're all here for a very specific reason and once you figure out what that is then you're on the right track and we're all on the ride together.

  

  Renee O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Figures

• I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Past
  • Easy
  • Natural

• The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Friends
  • Reason
  • Prosperity

• The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • World
  • Reason
  • Hell

• For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Reason
  • Ethical

• There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Government
  • Population
  • China

• For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Moments

• The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Reason
  • Hell
  • Producers

• What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Opinion
  • Feelings
  • Judgment

• The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.

  

  Bernd Sturmfels
  • Reason
  • Numbers
  • Complex

• What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Reason

• Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Mean
  • Reason

• Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Reason
  • Democracy
  • Congress

• The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Reason
  • Stupid
  • Brave

• Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Remember
  • Special

• Every director is different and they all have different styles. I've worked with directors who were very specific and they gave a lot of direction. The one thing about Michael Haneke that I think is interesting is that he really has a reason for everything he's asking you. If you challenge it, he is open for discussion but he has a clear idea of what he wants with reasons why.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Style

• Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Culture
  • Existence
  • Submit

• If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Home
  • Greatness
  • Memorable

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