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“I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are greed, hatred and delusion. Well, delusion is not much mentioned in the Christian tradition. In the West, we have underplayed the idea that our moral and spiritual troubles have to do with a lack of clarity or insight because original sin has dominated so much of our thinking. We tend to think that our troubles are caused by insufficient will power.”

“I think everybody needs healing. My understanding of human beings is that we were created in the image of God but we are all fallen, and Jesus died for us so that we can be redeemed. Every Christian is in a process of healing in some way. God's original creation was good, and in some ways fallen away from that. And in every area of our life we need to be healed and restored and to become more Christ-like.”

Thinking Way Needs Humans Christian Jesus Process Understanding Christ Human Beings Healing Our Lives Creation Areas Died Originals Fallen Healed God Image Redeemed Christ Like

Author:Nicky Gumbel

“Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.”

Men Way Years Mind Firsts Done Stories Happenings Originals Cinema Great Men Copying Great Year Pastiche

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.”

Ifs Way Want Originals Thinker Good Experiences

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000.”

“I think because we're ourselves, we tend to think we're unique. 'I have problems that are just specific to me.' Then you connect with one of your parents and you realize, 'Oh yeah, we had all that stuff, too.' You're not that original. I mean, in a good way, because it makes you feel like you're connected and a part of the world and not an island.”

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Author:Chris Hardwick

“In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.”

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Author:Al Gore

“If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Might Purpose Order Goal Creativity Plans Achieve Prove Originals Obedience Another Way Explaining Achieving Your Goals

Book:Shadow of the Giant

Source: Shadow of the Giant

“Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to find all the drivers were new. It wasn't like a square dance, where you miraculously end up with your original partner, laughing and feeling giddily relieved to find him after dancing with everyone else in the world. Instead, they swung around and kept on going, some people were at work by now, or halfway to the airport. In fact, driving might be the thing most opposite of dancing.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“Marc’s hand tightened visibly around Kevin’s fingers, his digits going white. Again. Both men clenched their jaws, Kevin in pain, and Marc in an obvious effort to control his temper and keep from breaking Kevin’s hand. Off. Why couldn’t guys find a more original way to test each other’s manly prowess? Arm wrestling might have been more subtle. Or maybe comparing the length of their…canines.”

Men Way Has Beens Hands Might Pain Guy White Effort Arms Tests Originals Fingers Obvious Compare Subtle Length Wrestling Temper Might Have Been Manly Kevin Canine Prowess

Book:Rogue

Source: Rogue

“Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I don’t think they are. At least that’s how it’s worked out in my life. And I know I’m not the only one.”

Thinking Knows World Way Years May Littles Different Moments Seems Happens Today Form Tomorrow Originals One Way Changing Your Life

Author:Slash

“Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)”

Way Originals Gaps Whiskey Bridging The Gap

Author:Jean Rhys

“I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit.”

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Author:Frederick Buechner

“...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of hearing and reading these lines I have decided to tell the truth: the original version is wrong. There is a grave error in the wording of this adage. The correct version should go as follows: Love like you don't need the money, Work like nobody is watching, Dance like you've never been hurt. See? Doesn't that make more sense?”

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Author:Gina Barreca

“Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.”

Way Earth Form Turns Cities Color Hair Return Originals Strikes Mood Weed Symbolic Texture Bolts

Author:Diane Ackerman

“["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.”

Way Wells Mean Has Beens Soul Lord Path Cutting Mercy Originals Green Track Heavy Weather Wheels Wet Worn Covenant Merciful Hebrew Wagons Ruts

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write. And remember, there are no rules for our profession. Ignore rules. Ignore what I say here if it doesn't help you. Do it your own way. Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write.The world is crying for new writing. It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories. If you won't write the classics of tomorrow, well, we will not have any.”

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Author:Anne Rice

“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”

“I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem.”

Thinking Way Want Problem Earth Challenges Wealth Movement Originals Depth Feminist Dominant Patriarchy Paradigm Nuance

Author:Winona LaDuke

“There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.”

Way Want Persons Soul Spiritual Desire Originals Sacred Addiction Dare Sensual Impulse Yearning Transcendence Degenerates Implicit

Author:Mark Epstein

“The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woman. We are the model for Adam and Eve. For all couples in love, there comes a moment when a man gazes at a woman with the very same kind of realization. It is an infinite helix, the dance of two souls resonating, like the twist of DNA, like the vast universe.”

Thinking Men Way Kind May Two Different Soul Moments Universe Couple Models Men And Women Infinite Originals Ancient Realization Adam Dna Twists Adam And Eve Two Souls Resonating Couple Love

Book:Lizard

Source: Lizard

“I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before 'thin'. And frankly, I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls.”

“Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning.”

“Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.”

Way Attention Roots Originals Accidents Drawing Invisible Manners Ease Etiquette Good Manners Punctuation Formality Drawing Attention

Author:Lynne Truss

“Now if you're not „hot”, you are expected to work on it until you are. It's like when you renovate a house and you're legally required to leave just one of the original walls standing. If you don't have a good body you have down to a neutral shape, then bolt on some breast implants, replace your teeth, dye you hair, and call yourself the Playmate of the Year. How do we survive this? How do we teach our daughters and our gay sons that they are good enough the way they are? We have to lead by example.”

Ifs Way Years Enough Body House Teach Example Son Hair Wall Gay Shapes Daughter Standing Hot Originals Expected Teeth Just One Breasts Good Enough Bolts Our Daughter Implants Breast Implants Gay Son

Author:Tina Fey

“I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders." --Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company”

“When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.”

Way Want Looks Desire Youth Mets Originals Cherish Accord

Book:The Song of the Lark

Source: The Song of the Lark

“I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.”

Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live

“Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.”

Way Trying Wells Play Music Originals Jazz Musical Technique Tone Originality Pencils

Author:Lester Young

“We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.”

Knows Way Believe Speak Nature Tree Color Flower Originals Metaphor Snow Entity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.”

Knows Way Used Born Originals Tennis Strokes Jimmy Grunt Motivational Tennis

Author:Monica Seles

“My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.”

Way Humans Made Voice Interest Quality Originals Instruments Intention Guitar Instance Tone Echoes Human Voice Guitar Playing Simulate

Author:Eric Clapton

“Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.”

Way Two Truth Consciousness Known Subjects Originals Intuition Mediums Former Latter Two Ways Inference

Book:The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

Source: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

“A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there is something essential lacking. Chess problems are unimportant. The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful-"important" if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and "serious" expresses what I mean much better.”

Ifs Way Wells Mean Important Problem Beautiful Moving Science Serious Essentials Originals Mathematics Surprise Chess Genuine Surprising Lacking Unimportant Intricate Ingenious Ambiguous

Author:G. H. Hardy

“And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment ... developed into a method for the production of hybridomas ... [which] was of more importance than our original purpose.”

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Author:Cesar Milstein

“A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.”

Way Feels Originals Complexes Available Bars Hips Sunset Pretentious Nightclubs

Book:What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned

Source: What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned

“I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed.”

Way Expression Draws Originals Drawing Gentle Paris Rough Vibrations Texture

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange families batten on their sons, lying on top of them like giant parasites. They not only prey upon their strength, but gnaw away at the sons' right to exist. The fathers punish, but they are at the same time the accusers. The sin of which they accuse their sons seems to be a kind of original sin.”

Way Kind Seems Lying Father Sin Strange Son Integrity Regard Originals Independence Enormous Giants Officials Attributes Prey Parasites Original Sin Accusers

Author:Walter Benjamin

“Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.”

Thinking Way Artist Consciousness Originals Entrepreneur Designer

Author:Brian Chesky

“See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.”

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Author:Garrett Hedlund

“The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.”

Way Has Beens Horror Approach Originals Genre Visuals Visionaries Explicit Horror Genre

Author:Michele Soavi

“There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.”

Source: The Garner Files: A Memoir

“We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.”

People Way Art Age Used Choices Justice Quality Percent Originals Data Digital Inferiors Improving Convenience Degrading Digital Age Mp3

Author:Neil Young

“Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships.”

Way Character Eye Originals Details Brilliant Memorable Revelations Surprising Family History Captivated Memorable Characters

Author:Andrea Barrett

“If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.”

Ifs Way Feels Chance Doors Unique Originals Driven Ice Cracks Fierce Compelling Compelled Chances Are Helpers

Author:David Knopfler

“You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.”

Way Four Stage Fame Originals Damage Halls Pumpkin Hall Of Fame

Author:Billy Corgan

“Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way to behave towards someone; also it does not fit the original motivation for studying or entering philosophy. That motivation is puzzlement, curiousity, a desire to understand, not a desire to produce uniformity of belief. Most people do not want to become thought-police. The philosophical goal of explanation rather than proof not only is morally better, it is more in accord with one's philosophical motivation.”

Source: Philosophical Explanations

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