“The state of mind of a fighter is so important. I don't like to see a fighter stay locked up in a room. Sometimes it works against them. They think and they worry. They dwell, sitting in that dark room. You come back and they're psyched out. I like to see boxers eat and then walk, mingle with people. You have to have a certain amount of movement.” PeopleThinkingMindImportantSometimesStatesCertainDarkWalksRoomsWorryMovementAmountSittingFighterState Of MindLockedBoxersLocked UpDark Room Author:Emanuel Steward
“I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.” MenHumansLongSometimesMatterMovingScienceNumbersSawsMaterialsAmountHealthyThousandSixLong TimeBeatsSickSizeSandGrainPulseLiquidSpoiledMicroscopesLapsesGrains Of SandSick ManEjaculation Author:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
“It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.” ThinkingWritingI CanSometimesPlayRememberSoundPiecesAmountPaperShockingChanneling Author:Ryan Adams
“Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.” IfsChildrenHas BeensEndsSometimesForceParentMovementAmountHatredDivorceParenthoodHomosexualBaggageInstability Author:Erwin W. Lutzer
“Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun.” MaySometimesMatterIndividualEnergyFunProgressAmountComfortableManagementProductionsRealmsPushingControlledPermitRacingInclusionCommodityStatus QuoComponentsMotorAutomobileSystematicLawnsPropsSpeedingLibidoMobilizationMowers Author:Herbert Marcuse
“Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.” FeelsI CanSometimesCertainHellAmountPlantFusionCrawlingBeetlesPower Plants Book:Eon Source: Eon
“An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.” BelieveImportantSometimesPhilosophyFormNaturalViewsAtheismTheoryAmountMetsTraditionFundamentalsPositive AtheismGuidesGenuineAllegianceScientismNatural SciencePrimacy Book:Atheism and Theism Source: Atheism and Theism
“Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.” FeelsMayMeanSometimesSexDifferencesRolesExampleAmountDegreesCreatingResearchConsequenceFemaleRemainsMalesPopulationFeministTendenciesDespiteDataLabelsBehaveReportsScoreSexismUnfortunateStereotypeSocializationSex Differences Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.” LittlesSometimesLightRunningTodayEarthEnvironmentAmountSurvivalErrorsSpeciesBillionsNineFiftyCentsNinetyNinety Nine Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMindChildrenSometimesYoungGirlParentInfluenceAmountLuckyScaryFortunate Author:Beyonce Knowles
“We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.” SometimesHandsFormUnderstandingGoneFlowerAmountGeniusRemainsInsightColourFlashFragrance Author:Robert Musil
“There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.” SometimesFilmAmountFinishedAbstraction Author:Michel Gondry
“Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work.” SometimesFunProcessTermQualityParticularTypePersonalityAmountDirectorsOur FamilyComposerQuality Of Life Author:Christophe Beck
“People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand what that means. It is also only a theory that the world goes round the Sun - it's just a theory for which there is an immense amount of evidence. There are many scientific theories that are in doubt. Even within evolution, there is some room for controversy. But that we are cousins of apes and jackals and starfish, let's say, that is a fact in the ordinary sense of the word.” PeopleWorldTryingMeanImportantSometimesFactsRoomsSunDoubtAtheismTheoryEvolutionAmountOrdinaryEvidenceRoundsPositive AtheismScoreImmenseCousinControversyApesScientific TheoryJackalsStarfish Author:Richard Dawkins
“Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.” PeopleKindSometimesSufferingWealthCasesRichDoubtMaterialsAmountAnxietyBiggerDifficultyEncountersWealthyMaterial WealthDoubt And Fear Author:Dalai Lama
“I worked as an actor for a few years before anything happened, so I'm used to going up for auditions, and then not getting the role. But sometimes I don't read the book of the film, in case I just totally fall in love with it, and then it just becomes an obsession and you want to do it so much because you've completely fallen in love with the story and the characters. And then, if the part doesn't go your way, it's heartbreaking. So, there's a certain amount of distance you have to keep before you can throw yourself in 100%.” IfsWayWantYearsBookSometimesCharacterStoriesFilmUsedCertainFallActorsRolesCasesHappenedAmountDistanceFalling In LoveObsessionFallenAuditionsHeartbreaking Author:Jim Sturgess
“Sometimes I have experienced at the start of a film you're very excited and enthusiastic and you've done all your preparation internally and externally and you start the film and it's all go... Then your attention goes somewhere else. Your energy goes into telling the story, so you don't have the same amount of energy to be objective, and that's okay because sometimes you become a subject of the story and you're inside it so much that you don't need to keep on looking on the outside.” NeedsSometimesDoneStoriesFilmEnergyAttentionSubjectsAmountOkayExcitedObjectivesPreparationEnthusiasticSomewhere Else Author:Colin Farrell
“Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.” IfsThinkingSometimesJobsFilmWaitingPositionAmountSceneComplicatedSpotsSupposed To BeShootingTime SpentTechnicians Author:Catherine Deneuve
“It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.” SometimesAmountMajorsLoyaltyPunishmentBitterUnhappinessBitter Experience Author:Gordon Allport
“First of all, in many Muslim countries women have incredible amounts of freedom, sometimes more than in some countries in Europe. So you cannot just make a generalized statement about women. Second, Islam is not the problem. It's tradition. It's culture. It's age-old mind-sets that need to be changed.” NeedsMindFirstsCountrySometimesProblemAgeCultureChangedAmountEuropeTraditionIslamIncrediblesStatementsMind Set Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.” SometimesFactsFacesOrderSeeingAmountEvidenceDenialStaringSuperstitionsRejectingRegularity Author:Murray Gell-Mann
“I think to always treat others as you would want to be treated yourself and treat every single person with the same amount of respect. It's not often you see it, but sometimes you meet someone who is not very nice to their peers. But when you do, it's a massive lesson in treating everybody with respect.” ThinkingWantPersonsSometimesNiceAmountLessonsTreatsTreatedMassivePeersVery NiceSingle Person Author:Christine Bottomley
“I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.” PeopleThinkingMenMeanSometimesCharacterFeelingsCertainAmountProjectsMen And WomenSexism Author:Matthew Weiner
“Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity.” IfsDoeSometimesBigsTodayAmericaOpportunitySecurityReturnAmountRight NowCreditBritishSignificantOnlinePoundsBubblesCurrencyContinuingUnlimitedFloatsMortgageErring Author:Michael Burry
“Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.” PeopleThinkingMadeSometimesWantedAmountMade It Author:Raekwon
“Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.” WorldWantNeedsHumansSometimesDoneCertainHuman BeingsForgetParticularAmountPeaceful Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes having a big amount of time is a gift, because by the time you're at the end of the run you feel like you've figured it out finally or discovered everything you can about the character. Sometimes that's not the case.” FeelsEndsSometimesCharacterBigsRunningCasesLike YouAmount Author:Gillian Anderson
“We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.” GivingKindPersonsLongCountrySometimesHardProblemSufferingTermPoorIssuesRichAmountEasierApproachAbsolutesDepthAidsHopefullyLong TermHard TimesGreenhousesPoor CountriesRich CountriesForeign Aid Author:Bill Gates
“Parents sometimes object to the amount of humor introduced into stories that are designed to teach moral or spiritual lessons. They seem to think that simple grim lecturing of children is the best way to achieve such goals.” ThinkingWayChildrenSometimesStoriesSeemsSpiritualParentGoalSimpleMoralTeachAchieveObjectsAmountLessonsBest WayGrimLecturing Author:Mike Berenstain
“I think the reason I like making movies sometimes more than doing TV is that you have one task, you only have a certain amount of time to do it, and then it is done. And I really like focusing in that way.” ThinkingWaySometimesReasonDoneCertainTvsAmountTasks Author:Jenny Slate
“We all only have a certain amount of money and that means yes, we have to make choices and sometimes those choices mean we don't get what we want.” WantMeanSometimesCertainChoicesAmount Author:Michelle Singletary
“Sometimes a creditor is willingto do this as a bargaining point - you give the creditor cash in hand, it gives you a positive listing on your credit report - even though you haven't paid the full amount. Get this agreement in writing.” GivingWritingSometimesHandsHavensAmountPaidCreditReportsAgreementCashBargainingCreditors Author:Jean Chatzky
“Most people don't know this, but if you settle a debt for less than the amount you owed, you are potentially responsible for taxes on the forgiven debt. Look at it this way: You received goods and services for the full amount of debt, but you're only paying for a portion of it - sometimes less than 50%. Anything more than $600 is generally considered taxable, but the IRS will sometimes waive the tax if you can prove that your assets were less than your liabilities when the debt was settled.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayLooksSometimesAmountProveTaxesResponsibleDebtSettlingGoodsAssetsPortionsForgivenLiabilityIrsGoods And Services Author:Jean Chatzky
“I don't spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don't think that their objections, though sometimes couched in science, are based in science. I think they're based in ideology. And I don't think there's anything you can do.” ThinkingSometimesCan DoHugeAmountClimateIdeologyDenialObjections Author:Bill McKibben
“Of course it's contrived, but once you know how its contrived, you can understand the editorial viewpoint. CNN, for example, when you see where they're really coming from, you can subtract their bias, and get some sort of facts. Sometimes the amount of bias that is imposed in these things is so laughable that it gives you an extra layer of entertainment.” KnowsGivingSometimesFactsCoursesKnow HowExampleAmountEntertainmentExtrasLayersBiasViewpointsEditorialsCnnLaughable Author:Frank Zappa
“There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't know if it helps my research, but I get a big kick out of Mark Twain, who wrote "The Diaries of Adam and Eve." He wrote very funny stuff on them. I sometimes read things that are loosely related to what I'm thinking and writing about.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWritingSometimesHelpingBigsStuffHugeAmountResearchMarkAncientSaintObsessedRelatedKicksAdamDiariesAdam And EveAugustineAncient WorldFunny Stuff Author:Stephen Greenblatt
“I think Prabhupada's accomplishments are very significant; they're huge. Even compared to someone like William Shakespeare, the amount of literature Prabhupada produced is truly amazing. It boggles the mind. He sometimes went for days with only a few hours sleep. I mean even a youthful, athletic young person couldn't keep the pace he kept himself at seventy-nine years of age.” ThinkingYearsMindMeanPersonsSometimesAgeYoungLiteratureHoursSleepHugeAmountSignificantNineAccomplishmentPaceSeventiesAthleticNine Years Author:George Harrison