Quotes 881 till 900 of 1663.
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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
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People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
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People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.
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People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.
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Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.
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Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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Plan for the worst, expect the best.
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Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.
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Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
As quoted in Synergetics Dictionary : The Mind of Buckminster Fuller (1986)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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