“The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.” CharacterStoriesHandsHappensInterestingWaveThings HappenLimitationFramework Author:Brandon Sanderson
“Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.” IfsThinkingFeelsEnoughHandsHappensRunningPainJobsCompanyRichDoubtRepublicanUltimateVictimSouthWorriedNo DoubtInsultSlipsRomneyGet RichCarolinaSouth CarolinaDownsizingSticking It Author:Rick Perry
“Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.” PlayHandsHappensPersonal History Author:Dave Grohl
“If you don't get offended by somebody scoring on you then I don't know what to tell you. That is like somebody breaking into your house and just taking your video game out of your hand and you just let it happen. I know if you do that to me, it ain't going to happen. I love my Xbox.” IfsKnowsHandsHappensGamesHouseVideoOffendedXbox Author:J. R. Smith
“What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society. And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.” IfsThinkingWorldNeedsHumansIdeasHandsBigsHappensForcePowerfulEnvironmentRightsAgreeEntrepreneurHuman RightsSpreadEntrepreneurshipHotelMost PowerfulSteelBig Ideas Author:Bill Drayton
“I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny to an outside company.” HandsHappensCompanyVisionDestinyHugeWorriedOur DestinyAppraisal Author:Robert Falcon Scott
“If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.” IfsHumansLongEnoughHandsHappensRunningCertainGamesWinningProcessLosesNumbersPlayerHabitInvolvedSkillsNormalFlowMajorityTendenciesMinoritiesStakesLong RunsTradingEquityPersistentImplicationsParticipantsConcentratingTradersAccelerateBetting Author:William Eckhardt
“Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.” IfsTryingProblemHandsHappensPainLyingSoundPresidentCompassionClearSubjectsExampleNotesTongueTiedIdealismVocabularyNo ProblemGrammarMagnanimitySyntaxCuffsTongue TiedInfliction Author:Mark Crispin Miller
“Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the precious fountain of hope. As we extend our hands and hearts toward others in Christlike love, something wonderful happens to us. Our own spirits become healed, more refined, and stronger. We become happier, more peaceful, and more receptive to the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.” HeartHandsHappensSpiritLove IsHealingPlansWonderfulSourceHolySpringStrongerSalvationPeacefulHoly SpiritMotiveFountainHealedRefinedWhisperingReceptiveSource Of HappinessPlan Of Salvation Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And that's just a lazy cliché.” PeopleHandsHappensUsedClubsLazyUnsympatheticSleazy Author:Steve Coogan
“The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon.” KnowsWellsKindIdeasCountryHandsMightHappensLife IsEvilWorstFrontsHearingRealizationNo IdeaDemonChairsFree CountryWorst Fear Author:Diet Eman
“Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that makes it global. Then people forget the roots of it and people forget why they care about it, and then it gets torn apart and turns so commercial that you don't even know what the essence of this art form is even about.” PeopleKnowsWantArtHandsHappensCareFormTurnsForgetRootsEssenceThings HappenTornTorn ApartMultimedia Author:Nas
“To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen.” ThinkingMenFactsHandsHappensEnemyWorstFineExtremesAccidentsUncertaintyNot SureRemedyConsolationAssuranceFeverPrecautionUneasiness Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.” IfsWayFeelsHas BeensTwoFeelingsHandsMightHappensMovingBeliefResultsHealingBehindsEnemyRocksObjectsWeaponsAngerIntentionInjusticeShoesPeacefulReleaseAlternativesFixedTwo ThingsToxic Author:Deepak Chopra
“I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.” WritingHandsHappensLiteratureType Author:John le Carre
“Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.” BodyHandsHappensNightStudyPrayingYour BodyLiftsOver YouBible StudyTuesdayTuesday Night Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.” KnowsWayFeelsDifferentRealStoriesShowsFeelingsHandsHappensCareOpportunityVoiceStrangeWeaknessResponsibleDifferent WaysOwnershipI Care Author:Lauren Graham
“[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.” BelieveChildrenHandsHappensFictionNovelTeacherLessonsRelateDisadvantages Author:Madame de Stael