I Quotes
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“It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.”
“It turns out that it is easier for an employer to prove that it did not hire a disabled worker for a reason unrelated to the worker’s disability than it is to prove that it fired the worker for such a reason. Consequently, the Americans with Disabilities Act actually led to a decrease in employment rates for the disabled. The law had exactly the opposite effect that lawmakers intended.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“It turns out that it's possible, if you are careful, to feel all the feelings that come with having and caring for a black hole, but to still not be consumed by it. I was, I realized, no longer afraid-- not of this darkness, or any other.”
Source: The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole
“It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.”
“It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.”
Source: The Liberty Amendments
“It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.”
Source: Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?
“It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.”
“It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.”
“It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.”
“It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a man will forfeit all sensible self-interest if he finds you affable enough to share your company over a flagon of ale.”
“It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.”
“It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.”
“It turns out that President Obama has acid reflux. He had a sore throat, went to the hospital, and they diagnosed it as acid reflux. Talk about irony -- it's not covered by Obamacare.”
“It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.”
Source: Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion
“It turns out that so much of growing up is about walking away from that which is not right in pursuit of something better.”
Source: Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace
“It turns out that some people are coming for your books: people who don’t read. The enemy has never been people who read a book and hate it. It’s often people who don’t read books at all. They used to go after dead authors because dead authors couldn’t fight back, but now they’re going after living authors quite a bit—of course, those authors are mostly Black, mostly queer, and mostly both.”
“It turns out that sometimes the future actually belongs to someone else.”
“It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe.”
Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel
“It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.”
“It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.”
Source: JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts
“It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.”
Source: My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children
“It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.”
Source: The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
“It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.”
Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.”
“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.”
Source: Killosophy
“It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who
are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.
Changing the way they see the world, sure, but also changing the world. By
challenging the status quo, a cadre of heretics is discovering that one person,
just one, can make a huge difference.”
“It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.”
Source: The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
“It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.”
Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
“It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.”
“It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.”
“It turns out that there’s something even harder than not being able to be with the person you love when you’re happy: not being able to comfort her when she’s sad.”
Source: Between the Lines
“It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.”
Source: Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life
“It turns out that value investing is something that is in your blood. There are people who just don't have the patience and discipline to do it, and there are people who do. So it leads me to think it's genetic.”
“It turns out that we determine who our leaders are by unconscious undertones we all project with our voices - and of which we're completely unaware.”
“It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.”
“It turns out that we’re not the only ones who go out on a scientific limb as we discuss or attempt to discuss cars, car repairs and scientific education in America today.”
Source: Car Talk Science: MIT Wants Its Diplomas Back
“It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than we do under neoliberalism. It feels that if neoliberalism is first about privatizing desire and imagination before the economy, then we're in this process of publicizing it again.”
“It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.”
“It turns out that, when i tend to loose a person, i tend to settle all the memories debt acknowledged with him.”
“It turns out that when people make enough money to meet their needs, they just find new things to need.”
Source: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“It turns out that wherever we are from, people are capable of altering not just what they eat but what they want to eat and their behaviour when eating.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.”
“It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.”
“It turns out the greatest kinds of strength are hidden, and move slowly, and cannot be stopped by anything until they have changed the world.”
Source: Universe of Two: A Novel
“It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.”
“It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption we can deal with. The standard cure for a stuttering economy is to go out and buy an SUV and three more refrigerators. That's obviously not the way to go.”
“It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.”
“It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.”
Source: Mason & Dixon