Best Things Quotes - Page 19

• Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

  Chip Heath

  Stories, Next, Kind

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• You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

  Allan Gurganus

  Body, Objects, Knows

  Allan Gurganus (2010). “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel”, p.655, Vintage

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• The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.

  Johannes Brahms

  Men, People, Facts

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• The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

  Karl Popper

  Falling In Love, Trying, Problem

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• The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dwelling, Sorrow, Busy

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• We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

  Larry Page

  Thinking, Evil, Entrepreneur

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• Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.

  Eileen Myles

  Song, Sex, Fall

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• I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it. You should never will a change in your work - you have to work an idea to death. I often find that the best things happen when you're near the end.

  John Currin

  Sex, Ideas, Done

  "Lifting the Veil". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2008.

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• What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We have to listen to each others narratives. Not interrupt defensively, or with hostility, but really try to open our hearts and listen with empathy. I learned so much from that meeting. It was a very difficult thing to do and it was one of the best things that I ever did in my life. Look what scares you in the face, and try to understand it. Empathy, I have learned, is revolutionary.

  Jane Fonda

  Hate, Heart, Thinking

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• The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was

  Ric Ocasek

  Song, Mean, Eye

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• When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

  George Etherege

  Passion, Violent, Torture

  'The Man of Mode' (1676) act 2, sc. 2

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• Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Life, Way, Classical Music

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• The best thing to know is what you don't know.

  Christine Quinn

  Knows

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• The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

  Pierre Trudeau

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• I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what’s happening now instead of what’s going to happen tomorrow.

  Melody Beattie

  Focus, Live For Today, Tomorrow

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, p.28, Hazelden Publishing

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• We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier.

  Melody Beattie

  Strong, Mistake, Believe

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• What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

  Bill Belichick

  Basketball, Team, Nba

  "An Open Letter to White NFL Players" by Rae Witte, www.complex.com. October 10, 2016.

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• "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Book of Merlyn". Book by T. H. White, 1977.

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• The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

  Anthony Minghella

  Writing, Boss, Slave

  Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

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• For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.

  Busta Rhymes

  Cheer, Winning, Awards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.

  Tony Abbott

  School, Thinking, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.

  Jeff Buckley

  Mother, Father, Play

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• The best things can't be told.

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Intercultural

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• My friend Heinrich Zimmer of years ago used to say, 'The best things can't be told,' because they transcend thought. 'The second best are misunderstood,' because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can't be thought about, and one gets stuck in the thoughts. 'The third best are what we talk about.'

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Years, Misunderstood, Second Best

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