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“World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to lead, and to lead in order to follow, then I think you're on the right path.”

Ifs Thinking World Order Leader Path Followers Right Path Lead In

Author:George Ogilvie

“The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.”

Thinking World Needs Giving Humans Important Together Order Actors Strong Company Creative Share Achieve Ego Elements Prepared Very Strong Being Human Be Creative Great Company

Author:George Ogilvie

“During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.”

Want Needs Bigs Government Order Pay Economy Effects Periods Taxes Finance Efficient Socialist Big Government

Author:Antonis Samaras

“People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?”

People Needs Ends Problem Order Successful Determine Being Successful The End Of The Day

Author:Kanye West

“I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.”

Thinking Writing Helping Order Emotion Perspective

Author:Michael Ian Black

“A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.”

Ifs Knows Trying Self Order Wonderful Periods Highest Abuse Pastor Perfectionism

Author:Ashley Judd

“When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person.”

Men Way Want Persons Able Order Father Sides Dark Half Creative Husband Negative Fulfilled Good Person Father Husband

Author:Frank Iero

“I feel like the personal me and the artistic me are separate, but connected. It's almost like a Jekyll and Hyde thing. As much as you try to keep them apart, they end up together. I'm very much aware that when I'm miserable on the creative side - if I can't make things work a certain way - it really detracts from being the father I want to be. So in order to ultimately be a good father and the man I want to be I know I need to keep my creative side in check, or at least a little bit happy. It's weird how it's intertwined that way.”

“A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.”

People Knows Needs Mind Order Speak Talking Misconception

Author:Dion DiMucci

“I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.”

Character Order Middle Storytelling Narrative

Author:Sarah Kay

“You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.”

Ideas Moments Order Right Now Boxes

Author:Hilary Swank

“That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.”

Needs Order Culture Prioritize Relinquishing Relinquishing Control

Author:David Platt

“The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.”

People Needs Believe Order Christ Security Identity

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.”

World Made Use Christian Jobs Order Century Havens Phrases Good Job Heartbreaking Save The World

Author:Richard Rohr

“In early days, I showed everything I made. There was no such thing as editing a collection. In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!”

Want Looks Made Shows Order Hundred Collections Editing 80s Pizza

Author:Michael Kors

“There are some scenes that you have to lose in order to win something at the end. A good director will keep pointing you that way, but it is also your job as an actor to understand that there are scenes that you do, particularly when you are the lead, where other people get to come in and steal and you have to let them. I understand that but a good director always reminds you where those moments are.”

People Way Ends Moments Jobs Order Actors Winning Loses Scene Directors Stealing Pointing Good Directors

Author:George Clooney

“You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring that character to life and not worry about the millions of people that you may be disappointing!”

People Knows Way Needs May Play Character Order Millions Worry Know How Best Way Disappointing

Author:Emma Stone

“It breaks your heart when you throw something away, but it's what left that counts. It's like worrying about the bits of rock you have knocked off in order to make a beautiful statue. You've wasted half the rock, yeah, but it's the Venus di Milo!”

Heart Beautiful Order Left Bits Half Break Worry Rocks Yeah Statues Venus Break Your Heart

Author:Ricky Gervais

“When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she/he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.”

Want Writing Made Book Character Certain Order Emotion Novel Knowing Information Reader Amount Paid Structure Guides Maintaining Payment Fidelity Paid Off

Author:David Bezmozgis

“In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.”

Thinking Has Beens Happiness Order

Author:Joseph Joubert

“The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.”

Should Firsts Lasts Order Given Color Needed Add Last Words Finishing Precaution Finishing Touches

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.”

Source: The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford

“Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.”

Sometimes Matter Order Good Things What Matters

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.”

People Years Children Helping Order Given Planets Helping Others Helping Other People

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.”

Past Religion Order Silence Eternal Males Dreary

Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

“It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.”

Kind Made Two Sometimes Order Miracle Incredibles Simplicity Humble Sock Lace Knitting Stitches Yarn

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.”

May Order Fall Feet Fellows

Author:George Sand

“Accident is simply unforeseen order.”

Order Accidents Unforeseen

Author:Novalis

“One writes in order to feel.”

Feels Writing Order

Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.”

Writing Self Done Form Order Process Poet Work Done

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.”

May Order Choices Evil Moral Clockwork Moral Choices

Book:A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.”

Ifs Want Play Home Order Games Class Demand Independent Revenge Refuge Domain

Author:Theodor Adorno

“Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.”

Knows Needs Should Doe Important Book God Order Realizing Learning Study Too Much Essence Important Things Harm Scripture

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That's my favorite thing.”

Way Ideas Real Stories Home Order My Favorite Core Setting Settings Narrative Favorites Things

Author:Brian Greene

“At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.”

Real Facts Faces Used Order Pleasure Accepting Violence Horror Directors Ugly Sensual Movie Sensual Pleasure

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat.”

Ifs Different Matter Order Space Numbers Cards Repeats Regions Finite Deck Shuffle Configuration Deck Of Cards Finite Number

Author:Brian Greene

“Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.”

Order Security Appreciate Threatened

Book:A Place Called Saturday

Source: A Place Called Saturday

“Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.”

Would Be Today Beautiful Order Memories Poor Common Funeral Transformed Alas Corpses Counterparts Parlor Beautiful Memories

Book:The American Way of Death Revisited

Source: The American Way of Death Revisited

“She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.”

Children Moments Lasts Certain Order Amount Rope

Book:Innocence and experience: stories

Source: Innocence and experience: stories

“what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.”

Thinking Writing Trying Doe Character Artist Order Painting Waste Logic Incredibles Seeking Make Sense Disorder Thread Marvelous

Book:Conversations with Nadine Gordimer

Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer

“In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.”

Kind May Facts Law Order Duty Degrees Elements Standards Eternity Sacred Lays Determined Obligation Settling Fixed Sovereign Being There Random Thoughts

Author:Horace Bushnell

“Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.”

Ifs Form Spirit Order Justice Highest Ceremony Proceeding Regularity

Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

“Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.”

Men Feelings Order Talking Baseball

Author:Deborah Tannen

“there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.”

Feels Enough Order Strong Drink Drinking Curse Alcoholism Strong Enough Stop Drinking

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long in coming to believe that it is the only possible and reasonable order.”

Believe Wells Long Matter Order Social Position Advantage No Matter What Injustice Reasonable Social Order

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?”

Whole Purpose Order Social Realizing My Friends Aim Womens Rights Dissolution Compact Subversion

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Whole Lasts Order Three Social Work Economic Century Waste Economics Productions Envy Confusion Consumption Cages Trash Avarice Squirrels Social Systems

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.”

Men Want Reason Done Able Jobs Order Ridiculous Decent Tackling

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we can, by pursuing our own most parochial self-interest, achieve in some miraculous way a consummation of world order, then we are heading not simply towards great disappointments, but towards disaster and tragedy as well.”

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