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“The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission”

Needs Half Easier Empty Glasses Permission Half Full Half Empty

Author:Grace Hopper

“In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell.”

Ifs Might Clear Rivers Empty Fellows Boat Mist Yelling Drifting Adrift

Author:Zhuangzi

“...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.”

“As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.”

Knows Giving Helping Chance Silence Audience Conversation Empty Depth Sentences Pauses God Knows Communicators Babbling

Book:Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt

Source: Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt

“We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as he truly is-an endless reservoir of fascination-boredom becomes impossible.”

Believe Reality Lying Sin Interesting Impossible Adventure Devil Empty Strategy Endless Fulfillment Fallen Boredom Emptiness Adam Employed Shrinks Fascination Adam And Eve Reservoirs

Book:Heaven

Source: Heaven

“Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.”

Heart Empty Paradox Cheeks Empty Heart

Author:Rumi

“Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night. I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic. If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips. I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's a pretty good one.”

“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.”

Ifs Needs Wells Bigs Half Design Emotional Empty Treats Environmental Glasses Customers Aesthetic Engineers Optimist Doing Good Pessimist Standpoint Good Design Half Full Half Empty

Author:Yves Behar

“God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.”

Way Happens House Left Strange Empty Moved Disappear Phenomenon Host Guests Strange Phenomena

Author:Rajneesh

“The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.”

Looks Hard Earth Pain Joy Suffering Hard Work Empty Disappointment Seeds Emptiness Harvest Crops Sowing Sowing Seeds Suffering Pain

Book:A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

“Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.”

Next Sports Space Middle Rocks Taught Empty Intuition Familiar Atoms Crystals Stadiums Taught Us Illustration Empty Space Nucleus

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.”

Love Is Fine Empty Wine Bottles Headache Love Is Like Wine And Love Wine Love

Author:Julio Iglesias

“Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.”

Stills Remember Life Is Sound Memories Talking Sadness Goes On Laughter Empty Good Things Silent Edges Time Goes On Jagged Edge

Book:Looking Back: A Book of Memories

Source: Looking Back: A Book of Memories

“A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.”

Artist Empty Cooking Kitchen Plates Chef Assurance

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.”

People Wells Two Cities Morning Environment Streets Strange Comfort Empty Dancing Clubs Clock Theme Aesthetic Going Out Urban Desolate Empty Streets Urban Environment

Author:Moby

“I enjoy vanity . But I can't stick to any of that lifestyle for too long because, when its true colors come out, it's empty and cold and soulless.”

Long I Can Enjoy Color Cold Empty Sticks Lifestyle Vanity Soulless True Colors

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.”

Empty

Author:Benjamin Stone

“If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.”

Ifs Littles Home Born Love You Empty Silver Finding Yourself Spoons Little Money Silver Spoons

Author:Jake T. Austin

“Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.”

Thinking World Feels Trying I Can Use Love Is This World Empty

Author:Joshua Radin

“You can disappear inside of yourself and become an empty shell with depression in mind. It's that feeling of being invisible. Sometimes when I wake up I don't feel like my head is attached to my body - there's nothing.”

Feels Mind Sometimes Feelings Body Empty Wake Up Disappear Invisible Shells Empty Shell

Author:Elena Tonra

“In the early '90s, it felt like there was space - there was like an empty feel. There was nobody really doing this. Maybe the Pixies were, a little bit. Their lyrics were also disjointed, more psychosexual or something. That's part of youth, too, maybe, that you just feel like you're doing something different.”

Feels Littles Different Felt Bits Space Youth Like You Little Bit Empty Pixies

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“You have rappers saying "stay off drugs, go to school" - empty verbal behavior. I think all of this became institutionalized in the early '90s. And it's become more and more solidified, more and more entrenched.”

Thinking School Drug Behavior Empty Rapper

Author:Carl Hart

“For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.”

“I remember that my sisters gave me this beautiful, like, empty book for Christmas. And I would draw all these beautiful women. Most of the time it was mermaids and a Minotaur: half human, half animal. I used to be obsessed with Minotaurs when I was a child.”

Humans Children Book Beautiful Remember Used Animal Half Draws Empty Used To Be Obsessed My Sister Beautiful Women Mermaid Minotaur

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. Ive seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life.”

Doe Bigs Guy Behinds Empty Keep Going Recognizing Balloons Big Guys

Author:Vandana Shiva

“And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.”

Way Feels Wells Persons Said I Can Remember Church Interesting Talking Heard Fans Tears Devil Empty Organization Radio Comedian Brown Ceo Humorists

Author:Nick Lowe

“It is more a mentality than the actual places people live, as Jefferson and Hamilton would argue about - city versus country. For example, someone could have an empty place mentality yet be living in a condo in Boca Raton.”

People Country Cities Example Empty Arguing Mentality Versus Hamilton Empty Places

Author:Gail Collins

“Of course, Texas is so huge it really is empty places; people can easily drive an hour and a half to work every day, so even if they're actually living in the suburbs, it sure feels as if they're in a remote location.”

People Ifs Feels Courses Hours Half Huge Empty Texas Location Suburbs Empty Places Actually Living

Author:Gail Collins

“Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see the effect of their pollution or pesticides on others. But Texans have an appreciation for water problems and are very aware of the droughts.”

People Want Feels Problem Water Effects Empty Property Appreciation Pollution Drought Texan Pesticides Empty Places

Author:Gail Collins

“I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.”

Running Careers Type Directors Empty Killing Obsessed Coast Casting Mosquitoes Ruth Casting Directors Leading Ladies

Author:Winona Ryder

“I feel like this song [Yello, "Oh Yeah"] was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio. There was probably no thought behind it; they were just playing with some samples and threw it together. I feel like there's no dream behind the song. Usually there's a dream or some kind of passion attached to a song. This song feels very empty. It made a lot of money for the songwriters but at the expense of culture.”

Feels Kind Made Done Dream Together Song Culture Passion Behinds Minutes Couple Empty Yeah Studios Expenses Lots Of Money Songwriters Sample

Author:Margaret Cho

“In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say, "Oh, a little bit like this." In the beginning, there isn't even a theme. It's like getting the whole world at your feet - to empty your mind of everything that's ever happened before, to get an empty space.”

World Mind Littles Whole Body Bits Space Happened Feet Little Bit Models Empty Whole World Theme Empty Space

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.”

People Country Problem Running Water Band Resources Empty Entrepreneur Billions Chinese Settling

Author:Charles R. Morris

“Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.”

May Causes My Own Wall Beats Gun Empty Bullets

Author:Clint Smith

“Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep into a character who only thinks he's running on empty. Crazy Heart may finally win him the Oscar that's unfairly eluded him and it offers the pleasure of watching a great actor at the peak of his form.”

Thinking Heart May Play Character Running Form Actors Winning Pleasure Hell Crazy Masters Offers Empty Bones Bridges Subtle Oscars Brilliance Showing Off Great Actors

Author:Peter Travers

“Clean and restock your car at the end of each trip. No matter how tired you are, resist the temptation to let that empty muffin bag wait until mañana. Tomorrow turns into next week, next month.”

Ends Matter Turns Next Waiting Week Car Months Tomorrow Empty Tired Clean Temptation Organized Bags Next Week Muffins

Author:Julie Morgenstern

“It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.”

Life Soul Light Lost Stars Millions Pieces Empty Filled My Soul Across The Universe

Book:Across the Universe

Source: Across the Universe

“Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women were allowed to become secretaries. That's the way they entered the work force. Then we began to educate them because they had to be educated. But it wasn't until after World War II that most of the great universities of this country became coeducational.”

Men World Way Made War Country Force Stuff Empty University Educated War Of The Worlds Educate World War Ii Nurse World War I Secretary Administrative

Author:John Shelby Spong

“After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.”

Should Mind Kind Made Activity Empty Intuition All Kinds Idle Receptive Weaving

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia.”

People Ifs Firsts America Used Land Empty Deny Invisible Defined Native Wilderness Occupation Native American Arrivals Columbus

Author:Vandana Shiva

“Maybe tweeting is a more appealing method of getting your thoughts out to the masses a little bit more often. That's the only way I consider it. Otherwise, I do it for the fans' purposes; it's definitely not to try to empty my brain out to anybody else.”

Way Trying Littles Purpose Bits Brain Fans Little Bit Mass Empty Method

Author:Joe Maddon

“I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Shows Rooms Half Empty Bases Sells What If Paranoia Half Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Ladyhawke

“Being in a foreign place, preferably for the first time, having seen many things and collected new impressions, and returning to an empty hotel room with an hour or so to blow. That mix often yields fine results.”

Firsts Hours Rooms Results Fine First Time Empty Blow Impression Hotel Yield Hotel Rooms Foreign Places

Author:Stefan Sagmeister

“If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.”

Ifs Water Empty Filled Gasoline Filled Up

Author:Chuck D

“Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar.”

Imagine Walking Sitting Empty Ridiculous Carbon Groceries Jars

Author:William McDonough

“We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception.”

Animal Ignorance Products Industry Empty Profit Fats Confusion Deception Misfortunes Refined Spoons Calories Saturated

Author:Kris Carr

“Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel lonely, miserable, but in the Eastern sense - "I'm so empty, because I'm filled with everything, and I'm connected to everything." It's very energizing. You want that kind of emptiness, whatever you have to do to get yourself quiet.”

Want Feels Kind Quiet Lonely Empty Filled Western Connected Miserable Emptiness Eastern Feeling Lonely Energizing

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.”

People Young Left Groups Drug Europe Ideals Empty Alcohol Fundamentalist

Author:Pope Francis

“The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.”

Lying Culture Fronts Empty Fake Superficial

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Meanwhile, the disgruntled "natives" of the West remain empty-handed and keep baying for blood, stuck on the caboose of the train, like Bob Dylan used to sing. Despair will always be a merchandize so long as we refuse to confront these lies head-on.”

Long Used Lying Blood Despair Empty Train West Refuse Stuck Bob Dylan Disgruntled

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

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