Easier Times Quotes

• It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

  George Washington

  Mistake, Evil, Easier

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The writings of George Washington”, p.287

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• Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Time, Science, Religion

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• I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Adults, Easier, Feels

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• There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.

  Adam Gopnik

  Thinking, Two, Firsts

  Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

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• I've been called a "baby killer" and I've been told I should die and that I'm ruining women's lives. Those accusations hurt for sure - and I pause when such labels are applied to me - but because they come from people I don't necessarily respect, I have an easier time moving beyond them.

  Amy Richards

  Baby, Hurt, Moving

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• I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything.

  Joan Baez

  Thinking, Breathing, Relaxation

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• My experience with My Sister Rosa showed me, once again, that I have a much easier time of it if I sell my novels after I finish them, not before. I'm lucky that I'm in a position where I'm able to do that.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Lucky, Able, My Sister

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

  Edward Witten

  Understanding, Bangs, Consciousness

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• I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier time of having innocuous, meaningless sex for pleasure. It's just how we're built genetically.

  Daryl Wein

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• As a comedian I don't think they look at me as a sexual person but I can see where with actors it would be a little difficult for them because its part of their mystique, it gives them an easier time to change characters and people aren't going oh we have a gay actor, their gay so I don't know if I'm gunna buy this guy with this girl, its weird, I don't think it's fair; it's only done with us, it seems, like they just accept everyone as straight and go along with it and then its oh their gay and make a big deal out of it.

  Wanda Sykes

  Girl, Character, Gay

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• If the audience lets that stuff wash over them, you know - almost like music, rather than dialogue - and doesn't fight it, then they'll have a much easier time rather than being sort of frustrated and confused otherwise. But if you get in the right state of mind it really does work quite well.

  David Cronenberg

  Confused, Fighting, Frustrated

  "David Cronenberg On Cosmopolis". Interview with Luke Goodsell, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Character, Men, Easier

  "Vanessa Hudgens Talks THE FROZEN GROUND, Meeting the Real Cindy Paulson, MACHETE KILLS, GIMME SHELTER, and THE KITCHEN SINK". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 19, 2013.

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• I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

  Frances Mayes

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.' 'I'll take that wager, Ser Alliser', Jon said. 'I'd love to see Ghost juggle.

  George R. R. Martin

  Teaching, Snow, Training

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.168, Bantam

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• Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Depressing, Humor

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• If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Pain, Cancer, Men

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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  For me and my wife...the easiest part of my life is my marriage. Like if everything was as smooth and easy and fun as my relationship with my wife then I would have a much easier time getting through the day. We really get along and we like the same stuff.

  Seth Rogen

  Fun, Wife, Stuff

  "Listen To Seth Rogen Perfectly Describe What’s Wrong With Marriages In Movies" By Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2014.

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• I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

  Thomas Horn

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Thomas Horn's incredibly fast start to career" by Jessica Zack, www.sfgate.com. January 15, 2012.

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• We don't want to give the controls to someone else; we want those reins ourselves. We want to get our way. And we get upset when things don't work out. . . . When we try to control someone else or events beyond the scope of our power, we lose. When we learn to discern the difference between what we can change and what we can't, we usually have an easier time expressing our power in our lives. Because we're not wasting all our energy using our power to change things we can't, we have a lot of energy left over to live our lives.

  Melody Beattie

  Control Someone, Differences, Giving

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• The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.

  Jessica Jackley

  Sexy, Fun, Light

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• Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

  Julia Glass

  Soul, Citizens, Nonchalance

  Julia Glass (2006). “The Whole World Over: A Novel”, Pantheon

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• In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.

  Mark Epstein

  Self, Land, Feelings

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• I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things.

  Deb Caletti

  Children, Growing Up, Betrayal

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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