“People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantShouldDoeArtistNextParticularBandLike Something Author:Conor Oberst
“I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.” ThinkingWayShouldArtFansParticularGeniusAbsolutesMassiveBrits Author:David Morrissey
“Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.” ShouldReadingInterestMoralParticularBearsMoralityReflectionMurderAgreeConvincedStealingObservationWitnessDogmaPlunderFalse Witness Book:Jefferson: Political Writings Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.” ShouldSecurityCrimeParticularFraudTradingInsidersInsider Trading Author:Preet Bharara
“Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.” IfsMenShouldPersonsMightParticularReaderPleaseIllMiserableSatire Author:Joseph Addison
“The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.” ShouldIdeasSupportCollegeParticularUniversityCaliforniaCommitteesEmphasisFrameworkCampus Author:Abraham Robinson
“If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."” IfsKnowsShouldPersonsMotivationalParticularFaultsExcuseDefenseBotherJust Smile Author:Epictetus
“"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldMadeDesireParticularStrangeOffersMusicianDesperatePhilipMicah Author:Angelina Jolie
“Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there. In particular, you should spend no time at all thinking about those rosy scenarios in which the market goes your way, since in those situations, there's nothing more for you to do. Focus instead on those things you want least to happen and on what your response will be.” IfsThinkingWayWantShouldHappensSituationFocusParticularResponseScenariosRosy Author:William Eckhardt
“A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as it was applicable in one's own particular circumstance. Not in an idiotic sense -- it doesn't mean that every Christian should grow a beard, or be a bachelor, or become a travelling preacher. It means that every single act and feeling, every experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must be referred to God.” ShouldMeanFeelingsChristianCoursesGrowsChristPerfectChristianityPracticeParticularCircumstancesPleasantPreacherImitationBeardBachelorsIdioticPerfect Practice Author:C. S. Lewis
“With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.” ShouldMindNamesCommonSunInfluenceParticularAuthorityIntellectualDeserveWeightErrorsSuperiorsRememberedHorizonPosterityBeam Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan