“I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.” IfsPlayCertainWorkEventsAmountBasesSteadyPractiseSporting EventsClarinet Author:Woody Allen
“To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.” HumansQualityEventsSweetAmountNeededPerfectionCharityProsperitySunshineModeratesJuiceCourtesyPeachesHuman QualitiesRipeningApricots Book:Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household Source: Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household
“Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a tremendous amount on competing agendas. Not everybody grease in the White House.” FacesMovingHouseWhiteEventsInformationAmountResponsiblePressesEnormousAgendasWhite HouseSecretaryCompetingGrease Author:Dee Dee Myers
“Men and women dream the same amount. The main difference in dream content relates to biology and life events. Women dream about their fertility, pregnancy and delivery, and have more dreams about children - owing to their role as primary caregivers. Other differences in dreams have been exaggerated.” MenChildrenHas BeensDreamDifferencesRolesEventsAmountMen And WomenPrimariesRelateBiologyPregnancyDeliveryExaggeratedOwingFertilityCaregivers Author:Charles McPhee
“There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.” PeopleThinkingGivingImportantSeemsFacesValuesEventsEmotionalAmountSorryContrarySignificancePunFace Value Author:Antonio Damasio
“If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going to be introduced in your narrative with a different size, with a different development. So that is the next element to superimpose on the sequencing element. And in fact, that element is so powerful that very often it can trump the sequencing event, that the sequencing aspect.” IfsDifferentFactsNextPleasurePowerfulEventsProduceDevelopmentTrumpAmountElementsAspectSizeNarrativeJudgedDispleasureSequencing Author:Antonio Damasio
“We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of your emotions, to think deeply about what you want in a year or two, or where you want your business to be, you're going to be swept away by every new event that occurs in the course of the day or the week and the small amount of time that you plan, that you address to conscious planning, is never enough to overcome the constant tide of emotions and new things happening.” ThinkingWantYearsTwoEnoughCoursesEmotionConsciousnessPlansWeekEventsWillingAmountHappeningsConsciousGainsOvercomingConstantWhat You WantPlanningThings HappenRationalAddressesBe YouTidesNew ThingsSwept AwaySmall Amounts Author:Robert Greene