A Quotes
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“A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different." Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect.”
Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“A good thing can't be cruel.”
Source: Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne
“A Good Thing… i think it’s a good thing, how we can struggle in such desperation for clarity and still never find a way to make any sense of how they treated us… i think it means we’re just not capable of that same cruelty within ourselves. and i think that’s a really good thing.”
Source: wild spirit, soft heart
“A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.”
“A good thing never ends.”
“A good thing sells itself" An Nzema proverb”
“A good thing that is squandered upon bad folk is never remembered by them for good.”
Source: High History of the Holy Grail
“A good thing to do is to think about what people have done. Not only people that you've read about in books or seen on the news or heard mentioned in deliberate conversation, and not only deeds that are noteworthy. It's good to think about all the possibilities of what people have probably done. The scope of what's possible, statistical probabilities of unique behavior and unusual action in the 200,000 years that people have existed because there are more than 7 billion of us alive right now and that's not including the number of people who have ever lived. Within those numbers exist captivating, eccentric, strange, fanciful variation, when you consider what people have probably done. Like, every time you've had an impulse that you've held back, imagine that there has been a person who has had that same impulse and gone through with it, because there probably has been. Imagine any type of person and any type of story having happened because when you do that, it feels like you're creating, but you're probably not. Imagine, considering the magnitude of these numbers and the variables within each human being, that all possibilities have occurred. If physical anomalies like twins born with bodies totally fused together resembling two-headed, eight limbed, human spiders, or a man born with a shrunken female head affixed to the back of his own head, which was animated without being consciously controlled by him, then imagine that anything you can imagine has occurred. However typical or atypical, these things you're imagining have happened. These people you're thinking of have been.”
Source: Handsome Vanilla
“A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.”
“A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.”
“A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.”
“A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.”
“A good thing to remember is that life
is an equal amount of doughnut shops
and roadkill every day. And if you see
the deer get hit you can call the tiger
rescue group and the deer will become
tiger food.”
“A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.”
“A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“A good thought sets you up for a great deed.
A good desire sets you up for a great feeling.
A good intention sets you up for a great act.
A good feeling sets you up for a great experience.
A good word sets you up for a great reception.
A good mind sets you up for a great fortune.
A good deed sets you up for a great reward.
A good attitude sets you up for a great life.
A good heart sets you up for a great destiny.
A good soul sets you up for a great afterlife.
A good teacher sets you up for a great lesson.
A good job sets you up for a great career.
A good education sets you up for a great occupation.
A good school sets you up for a great future.
A good character sets you up for a great relationship.
A good mother sets you up for a great wife.
A good father sets you up for a great husband.
A good parent sets you up for a great marriage.
A good beginning sets you up for a great conclusion.
A good today sets you up for a great tomorrow.”
“A good threat is worth a thousand tests.”
Source: Software Testing Techniques
“A good thriller should have a captivating beginning, an engrossing middle and a dynamic ending.
A great book would have all three but tell a story that sets the reader on edge as he or she listens to the heartbeat of the writer.
© 2018, Danny Kemp All rights reserved.”
“A good time for laughing is when you can.”
“A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.”
“A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.”
“A good time to laugh is any time you can.”
Source: Move On
“A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.”
“A good title is a work of a genius!”
“A good title is the title of a successful book.”
Source: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959
“A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.”
“A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.”
“A good Traceur trains until he/she gets it right. An excellent Traceur trains until he/she cannot get it wrong.”
“A good trademark, whether a word mark or a symbol, is devoid of fashion or trend, which makes it potentially iconic if it's seen for long enough in the right places.”
“A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.”
“A good trader loves an active market, you don't make money when the market is static.”
“A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.”
Source: Horse Sense for People: The Man Who Listens to Horses Talks to People
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.”
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn't waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret.”
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
“A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.”
“a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller”
Source: A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes
“A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.”
“A good trend following system will keep you in the market until there is evidence that the trend has changed.”
“A good Trial Lawyer lives in the NOW always keeping Shiva’s third eye open. A great Trial Lawyer pushes the line, but never crosses it.”
Source: CROSSING THE LINE: Managing Chaos spirituality gone wrong
“A good trick as you get older is to get a thick pair of glasses that have a dark frame. Everything else can droop and slide but that pair of dark glasses stays sharp and crisp. Look at Cary Grant. Look at Vidal Sassoon.”
“A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.”
Source: The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited
“A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.”
“A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice”
“A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name.”
“A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.”
Source: Why Time Begins on Opening Day
“A good understanding is to keep the great law.”
“A good upbringing is necessary for a long life, but sometimes the patience of the young trees is sorely tested. As I mentioned in chapter 5, "Tree Lottery," acorns and beechnuts fall at the feet of large "mother trees." Dr. Suzanne Simard, who helped discover maternal instincts in trees, describes mother trees as dominant trees widely linked to other trees in the forest through their fungal-root connections. These trees pass their legacy on to the next generation and exert their influence in the upbringing of the youngsters. "My" small beech trees, which have by now been waiting for at least eighty years, are standing under mother trees that are about two hundred years old -- the equivalent of forty-year-olds in human terms. The stunted trees can probably expect another two hundred years of twiddling their thumbs before it is finally their turn. The wait time is, however, made bearable. Their mothers are in contact with them through their root systems, and they pass along sugar and other nutrients. You might even say they are nursing their babies.”
Source: The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
“A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.”