“Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.” ThinkingWantDoeSelfHelpingHappensActionDesireAsksGoalAnimalAchieveSelf EsteemRaisesLuckInstinctEsteemGood Luck Author:Barbara Sher
“We're all animals, that we all respond to the same stimuli. If you want to motivate somebody not to have premarital sex, or motivate black bears not to go diving into dumpsters, first you have to think about why they do it. Telling them to stop isn't going to help. There has to be some incentive for them to alter their behavior.” IfsThinkingWantFirstsHelpingSexBlackAnimalBearsBehaviorIncentivesStimulusDivingDumpsters Author:Adam Carolla
“FDA, which regulates the safety of vegetables, doesn't have those kinds of rules because Congress doesn't want it to. It's not that the vegetables themselves have anything wrong with them; it's that they're contaminated with animal manure. One of the rationales for a single food safety agency is that you can't separate animals from vegetables.” WantKindAnimalSafetyCongressAgencyVegetablesManureFdaRationaleFood Safety Author:Marion Nestle
“I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I think it ought to be governed by the standards of how it affects the individual animals, just as we'd want to deal with institutions that deal with humans by how they affect individual humans.” ThinkingWantHumansIndividualAnimalDealsModernOughtStandardsInstitutionsNotionGrossFarmingInterference Author:Peter Singer
“I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.” WantAnimalDisplayZoos Author:Grigori Perelman
“Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.” ThinkingMenWantBelieveReasonAnimalRational Author:Anatole France
“So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to meet the budget, otherwise we wouldn't even have a start-date.” IfsWayWantKidsWaterAnimalCuttingNeededScaredBudgetsWhat IfInsecure Author:Ang Lee
“There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'” MenWantFirstsFeltAnimalCompassionLimitsParadiseAmusingBlunders Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there's only one way to test it. All right Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good... They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you. Well, all right, but hold my sign. I don't wanna lose it.” IfsWayWantWellsLooksShowsGuyLosesHurtAnimalDiscoveryTestsSuitsOne WayBitesPoolIt HurtsJimmySharksInventing Author:Bill Engvall