A Quotes
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“Almost all major scientific projects today are huge collaborations, yet we still have this public obsession with the idea of the individual scientific genius. One of my goals as a science communicator is to celebrate the collaborative dimensions of science, which I think will be critical for facing the ecological and resource challenges ahead. In a sense, we are all corals now.”
“Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual; and when you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust to him where that passion is concerned.”
“Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.”
Source: Italy, a Poem
“Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.”
“Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.”
Source: On directing film
“Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.”
“Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.”
Source: Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness
“Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.”
“almost all novels are love stories.”
Source: Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand
“Almost all of "Julie" was shot on location in Carmel, which is a lovely resort town a little south of San Francisco. My co-star was Louis Jourdan, whom I liked very much. An amiable man, very gentle, very much interested in the people around him; we had a good rapport and I found talking to him a joy . . . We would take long walks on the beautiful Carmel beach, chatting by the hour.”
“Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy - cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority.”
“Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'”
“Almost all of my jobs have been on locations. And I think you can be that person who says, 'I have a job that forces me to travel and I'm just going to go ahead and do it and pray for my next flight home.' Or 'this is where I am, this is my life, let me see a part of this world I now live in.'”
“Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.”
“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.”
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.”
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Almost all of the demand for oil that suddenly pushed prices up was speculative demand. People began to speculate not only in stocks and bonds and real estate, but also in commodities. The market went up for old tankers, which were used simply to store oil in. A lot of the oil was simply being stored for trading, not used.”
“Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don't have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you're sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.”
“Almost all of the governments have agreed that they will not acquire nuclear weapons and that they will allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor their commercial and research nuclear power operations to ensure that nuclear materials - highly enriched uranium and plutonium - are not diverted to use in weapons.”
“Almost all of the liberal and Christian members of the constitutional commission have withdrawn, because we all fear that the Muslim Brotherhood will pass a document with Islamist undertones that marginalizes the rights of women and religious minorities. Who sits in this group? One person, who wants to ban music, because it's allegedly against Sharia law; another, who denies the Holocaust; another, who openly condemns democracy.”
“Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”
“ALMOST all of the original tallgrass prairie has vanished. Lost to the plow, to development, and to---perhaps---a lack of imagination.”
Source: Tallgrass Conversations: In Search of the Prairie Spirit
“Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.”
“Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.”
“Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.”
Source: Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes
“Almost all of us have wondered at one point or another about the taxes we pay: Where does the money go?”
“Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“Almost all of what you need to live happily is not visible to the eye. And, conversely, all unhappiness comes from your wants and from your desire to own and cling on to all that you can see.”
“Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.”
“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”
“Almost all our health concerns can be traced back to our belly. Ensure a healthy gut and the rest will take care of itself.”
Source: Rules of Health: Sustaining Optimal Health Through Safe Detoxification, Reaching a Healthy Weight, Managing Stress Effectively, and Achieving Deep Restorative Sleep
“Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.”
“Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.”
“Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.”
“almost all parents of dysfunctional adult children have to some extent become enablers.”
Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
“Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.”
“Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.”
“Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or suicidal thoughts and it results from the battles we wage against our thoughts as we futilely try to get rid of our historie.”
“Almost all petty challenges in marriages that lead to greater crisis are all traceable to the absence of friendship.”
“Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.”
Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
“Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.”
“Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.”
“Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.”
“Almost All Problem Areas Of Your Life Are Caused By Faulty Belief Systems. You Are The Cause Of Your Problems And You Are The Solution To Your Problems.”
“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.”
“Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.”
Source: God Is Not One
“Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.”
Source: Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin
“Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life