“I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.” ThinkingTryingLongUseCertainPleasureMistakeAchieveComfortProfoundEntertainmentHappyLastingCheerBeing HappyDeep ThoughtTrue HappinessCheer UpLong LastingProxy Author:Simon Pegg
“Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.” ThinkingMenTryingWould BeWantedMovingCertainHumanityCoursesLinesPerfectImagineProduceHe ManPerfectionStrategyCreatorValuableEndlessEmptinessTemporaryProphecyUtopiaContinuationToothachePerfect Society Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944 Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944
“The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.” IfsWayGivingWritingTryingEnoughCertainMonthsPeriodsSixPagesSix Months Author:Judith Krantz
“The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.” PeopleWorldFeelsTryingCertainDoorsThis WorldJudgingStupidityIgnorantPotEducateBureaucracyKeepersPintsGallonsMonstrosityScribesPeople Stupidity Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingBigsCertainRealizingDealsWorryRecordsPhonesMeaninglessBig DealNsaMetadata Author:Rand Paul
“I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.” PeopleGivingFeelsWritingTryingKindImportantBookCertainAsksAnswersFansInvolvedAsk MeReportsSexismMailQuotationsEmailPersonal Relationships Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.” KnowsWantTryingKindChildrenMadeCertainParentMistakeSituationTeachExampleOur ChildrenYour ChildrenBe KindMade A MistakeBe Kind To Others Author:Eli Manning
“I feel like the personal me and the artistic me are separate, but connected. It's almost like a Jekyll and Hyde thing. As much as you try to keep them apart, they end up together. I'm very much aware that when I'm miserable on the creative side - if I can't make things work a certain way - it really detracts from being the father I want to be. So in order to ultimately be a good father and the man I want to be I know I need to keep my creative side in check, or at least a little bit happy. It's weird how it's intertwined that way.” IfsKnowsMenWayWantNeedsFeelsTryingLittlesI CanEndsTogetherCertainOrderFatherBitsSidesCreativeHe ManLittle BitConnectedChecksMiserableArtisticIntertwinedGood FatherHydeJekyllJekyll And Hyde Author:Frank Iero
“I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.” TryingCertainFocusStyleWeightMusclesLiftingContractionsContracting Author:Ronnie Coleman
“I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingFirstsStillsIdeasFeelingsCertainSongLosesMindsetReachingBefore And Now Author:Conor Oberst
“... I don't think anybody should avoid mistakes. If it is within their nature to make certain mistakes, I think they should make them, make the mistakes and find out what the cost of the mistake is, rather than to constantly keep avoiding it, and never really knowing exactly what the experience of it is, what the cost of it is, you know, and all the other facets of the mistake. I don't think that mistakes are that bad. I think that they should try and not do destructive things, but I don't think that a mistake is that serious a thing that one should be told what to do to avoid it.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldTryingCertainMistakeKnowingSeriousCostDestructiveAvoidingFacets Author:Anne Bancroft
“I try not to think of myself as a woman filmmaker. I don't look for women influences. I have noticed in the past few years that there is a certain ceiling that a woman filmmaker can reach. I don't believe that it's sexism per se, but there are certain expectations in the industry about what films should be, how they should be made, what stories they should tell, and it's a habit, it's a tradition.” ThinkingShouldTryingBelieveLooksMadeStoriesFilmCertainInfluenceIndustryHabitExpectationsTraditionDon't BelieveFilmmakerSexismCeilings Author:Signe Baumane
“I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'” WantTryingKindCertainSinCirclesVenture Author:Timothy Keller
“I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.” PeopleWritingTryingDoeHappensCertainCultureBornFictionMinistersNovelists Author:Gore Vidal
“There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.” ThinkingFeelsTryingI CanBookSometimesCertainInterestRealizingSituationWrittenLandPagesTopicsLapFilesProgressionLinearGreat Book Author:Jodi Picoult
“Entertainment companies always have to stay on the edge of trying to catch that certain thing that will grab people's attention. And that thing is always changing. Nintendo has been doing this for a long, long time. Originally, we weren't even a video game company, but we were still an entertainment company. So I can't say what that next thing is, but I can say, at Nintendo we're trying to create new ways to play.” PeopleWayTryingLongHas BeensStillsI CanPlayCertainNextGamesAttentionCompanyLong TimeEdgesEntertainmentVideoNew WaysNintendo Author:Shigeru Miyamoto
“People are constantly trying to make an image for you. They`ll dress you up and tell you to pose a certain way and take all these pictures... they want a certain image, so they create that. And unless you`re spending a lot of time to create another image to counteract that image, theirs will win. So right now, I`m kind of dealing with a lot of false ideas of what I`m about.” PeopleWayWantTryingKindIdeasCertainWinningRight NowDressesSpending Author:River Phoenix
“I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition. I think a lot of things in life are understood that way. But you internalize these things; they don't really pop out. Certain things are built inside - little areas of understanding. I feel that I live in darkness and confusion, and I'm trying, like we all are, to make some sort of sense of it.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingLittlesIdeasFeelingsCertainUnderstandingSoundDarknessComfortableUnderstoodBuiltAreasPopsIntuitionConfusionThings In LifeLove FeelingImages Of Love Author:David Lynch
“The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.” ThinkingWayTryingCountryCertainLeftSuccessfulHabitDifficultyFranceBeing SuccessfulWay Of Thinking Author:Thomas Sankara