“There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.” PlayHappensFeltInterestingSpecialExampleDrinkUniversalThings HappenProportionIrelandSpecial Things Author:Ed O'Brien
“You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.” IfsWayWantWritingBookHappensSpecialAmbition Author:Michael Lewis
“Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.” SaidHappensHumanityFallSpecialBuddhismThings HappenFree WillProvidenceReadinessSparrowsHamlet And OpheliaHamlet 2Hamlet OpheliaMortality In HamletHamlet ThemeHamlet RevengeMorality In Hamlet Author:Frederick Lenz
“Charisma's good every night. Something special is always about to happen. You've got to believe it.” BelieveHappensNightSpecialEvery NightCharismaSomething Special Author:Jim Thome
“You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.” KnowsWantInspirationalHappensSecretSpecialBuddhismFineSecret LifeSpecial You Author:Frederick Lenz
“Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore.” IfsLooksBodyHappensJobsFacesAsksGoneSpecialMajorsResearchNosesYour FaceThreateningComplication Author:Halle Berry
“But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.” WayRealRealitySeemsHappensLawPoliticalSufferingChoicesNationsSinPayLeaderClassCareersCasesSpecialEmotionalPagesServantContinuingUnjustTornVeteranPtsdJuniorsExhibitsPolitical PowerCongressmanPublic ServantsLawmakersTorn ApartAlbatrossHistory ClassFuture Careers Author:Leon Kass
“In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.” ThinkingWayLongMadeImportantBigsHappensNextWinningStrongTermLossDecisionImagineWorstSpecialEmotionalPeriodsWeakTradeProfitTemptationSomething SpecialStreaksInsidious Author:William Eckhardt
“I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi.” UseShowsHappensKidsMotherHouseWaitingSpecialChinaDinnerOccasionsItalianMuseumsPlasticPopeFurnitureTowelsSpecial Occasion Author:Ray Romano
“What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.” ThinkingArtMadeImportantHappensFormSpecialStandardsJazzSay AnythingAmbiguous Author:Stefon Harris
“Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.” WholeHappensSpecialSubjectsTypeTestamentNew TestamentOld TestamentTypology Book:The Great Code: The Bible and Literature Source: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
“The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment.” FirstsFactsHappensTodayFormCommonAttitudeAcceptingHappenedSpecialPhilosophicalRegardSurpriseProfoundYesterdayOccasionsPrimariesFeaturesEncountersDistinguishedAstonishment Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place where everyone wanted to go. Empires wanted to be able to say that they were the first to put a climber on top of Everest. So when a tragedy happens up on that mountain, I think it has a global resonance. Everybody's heard of Everest. Everybody knows what Everest is and what it means, and the significance.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsMeanLittlesHappensAbleWantedBitsImaginationHeardSpecialCenturyMoonMountainLittle BitTragedyEmpiresSignificanceResonanceEverestSpecial PlacesClimbers Author:Richard Engel
“The moment you discover in life that it's not about yourself, that it is about investing in others, I think you're entering a steadier state to be a great leader. Because above all, I think the main quality of a leader is to be a human being. There's no reason you are special because you happen to have this job or these responsibilities.” ThinkingHumansStatesReasonMomentsHappensJobsHuman BeingsQualityResponsibilityLeaderSpecialInvestingNo ReasonAbout YourselfEnteringGreat LeaderBeing ThereQualities Of A Leader Author:Paul Polman
“Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.” WritingUseHappensPeaceSpecialListsNotebook Author:Peter McWilliams
“Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.” HappensMotherRolesWifeSpecialExampleDrawsBreathsPlanningRitualWomanhoodWidowsQualificationsWidowhood Author:Jacquelyn Mitchard