“What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life.” PeopleFeelsImportantDoneSpiritRealizingInformationLike YouFlowEmptyStressImportant ThingsBusyMeaningfulExtensionsCompletionBeing Busy Author:Tony Robbins
“If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.” IfsWorldImportantRealDifferencesHalfStudyChildhoodResearchEmptyRaisedGlassesCome UpExperimentsOutcomesFiftyReal WorldHostAdoptionTwinsNurtureInterventionIdenticalEarly ChildhoodHalf FullHalf EmptyFraternalIdentical Twin Author:Steve Sailer
“Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.” ShouldImportantSpaceSilenceStyleFitEmptyBasesDressesFilledArchitectureOur ThoughtsSequenceImplicationsAccuracyUtteranceEmpty Space Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!” MenLifeImportantLife IsBeliefUnderstandingExistenceEmptyImportant ThingsMortalsThings In LifeMost Important Things In Life Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.” PeopleThinkingImportantSocialFeltHeroEmptyImportant ThingsProtestContemptImpatientJimmy Book:The Outsider Source: The Outsider
“Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? To feel fulfillment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.” IfsWorldFeelsMeanImportantUnderstandingLevelsThis WorldEmptyImportant ThingsDeeperMeaninglessFulfilment Author:Alicia Keys
“There are so many empty headed people in the fashion business who take themselves way too seriously and I don't think I am at all like one of them. To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!” PeopleThinkingWorldWayImportantFashionEmptyImportant ThingsShoesFashion Business Author:Iris Apfel
“In myths and movies, the mentor can play a few roles: they bring the hero a magical gift, teach them how to use a special tool, or help the hero get unstuck. In a presentation setting, the presenter is the mentor. Our role as a presenter is similar to a mentor. We should be brining something of important value to our audience, they should not leave empty handed. There should be something useful and somewhat life-altering that we give them. It's not very often that we sit through a presentation and feel like we've sat at the feet of a mentor, but we should.” GivingImportantHelpingValuesTeachAudienceSpecialHeroEmptyMythSatMentor Author:Nancy Duarte
“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.” IfsImportantMatterFriendshipWealthMoneyFamilyMaterialsFriendsEmptyVery GoodConvincedCeasePleasantRelativeGood FriendMaterial ThingsVery Good Friends Author:David Rockefeller
“You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.” ThinkingSaidTwoImportantSometimesTogetherBeautifulDiesThreeCoursesBehindsLike YouOrdinaryEmptyRoseGlassesScreensButterflyCaterpillarsYou Re BeautifulPasserby Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.” PeopleWorldWritingYearsMindImportantBookStatesPlayWholeStoriesProblemAbleModernTenMarriedEmptyHotHarmScalesWhole WorldGoing AwayState Of MindAfternoonHandsomeBeing MarriedModern Times Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.” WritingArtImportantBookIdeasEndsHandsProcessCreativityMagicMaterialsEmptyGoldImportant ThingsVoidMaterial Things Author:Alan Moore
“It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.” LongImportantBookProblemChoicesForceSpacePlansProveEmptyRemainsLibraryCollectionsInherentArrangementsShelvesVacuumsLodges Book:The Library at Night Source: The Library at Night
“We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.” TryingImportantOrderSpaceDoorsWallHonorWorshipSolutionsWindowEmptyDecentEmpty SpaceZahir Author:Paulo Coelho
“Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.” PeopleImportantEndsLife IsJourneyCarEmptyTrainSeatsStationsRoutesPassengersTrain Stations Book:False Memory Source: False Memory
“The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.” KnowsLifeImportantEnoughLanguageEasySpaceEmptyWarriorGod LoveEmpty SpaceImportant WordsSmall Words Author:Paulo Coelho