Better Ways Quotes - Page 9

• I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.

  Seth Rogen

  Life Is Like, Way, Dramatic

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Way, Performing

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• Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.

  William Harvey

  Nature, Science, Practice Of Medicine

  1987 Making It Happen: Reflections on Leadership.

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• There's a better way to speak out against President Putin and call out his bigotry for exactly what it is: speaking up for equal rights and educating people around the world about the persistence of homophobia. Rather than boycott, I, along with several amazing organizations including Athlete Ally and All Out, plan to use the Sochi Games as a teachable moment for the world.

  Greg Louganis

  Athlete, Gay, Persistence

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• There's no better way to process pain than to write.

  Rashida Jones

  Pain, Writing, Way

  "Sundance 2012: Rashida Jones on Her Screenwriting Debut, "Celeste and Jesse Forever" (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 20, 2012.

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• I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  The NewsBusters Interview, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2012.

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• With all the talk of socialism among Democrats on the campaign trail lately, there are actually quite a few people on the right looking at how resources and capital are currently distributed in this country of ours and thinking, you know, there`s got to be a better way.

  Chris Hayes

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Law, Imagination

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• Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Death, Adventure

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

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• So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Thinking, Government, Order

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• I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Funny, Happiness

  Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1979). “The Hesburgh Papers: Higher Values in Higher Education”

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• We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to punish them, or 'guilt' them if they don't. This applies to ourselves as well.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Compassion, People, Guilt

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• Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Inspiration

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.351, Library of Alexandria

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• The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Change, Technology

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The road ahead”

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• Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.

  Patrick Monahan

  Butterfly, Goes On, Way

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• All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as a job credential, one that ironically does not even live up to its own claims of guaranteeing either decent employment or a better way of life.

  Henry Giroux

  Jobs, People, Today

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• I hit the highway, making money the fly way;
  But there's got to be a better way.

  Lil' Troy

  Hip Hop, Way, Making Money

  Song: Wanna Be a Baller, 1999

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• Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Opportunity, Journey

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

  William Glasser

  Children, Lying, Teaching

  "Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom".

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• Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

  Natalie Portman

  Creating, Support, Networking

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• Boxing is a great way to vent. I don't know if there is a better way, I think for women too. There is something so primal about it and it's the best exercise in the world, even if you don't ever get in the ring.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Exercise, Thinking, Boxing

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• But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Innovation, Environmental

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• What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

  Kevin Kelly

  Motivation, Inspiration, Winning

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• The world can use more light and less noise. More solvers and fewer blamers. More folks showing a better way and fewer folks complaining about how much better things used to be. More folks offering help and fewer folks wringing their hands about the problems. More hope bringers and fewer hope killers.

  Steve Goodier

  Light, Offering, Hands

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• A book is a better way to develop a complicated idea, or to tell a big story and to show how ideas weave in and out of each other, which is something that comes up a lot in happiness because all these ideas are interconnected.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Book, Ideas, Stories

  Source: bigthink.com

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