Deep Thought Quotes - Page 20

• An idea is a feat of association.

  Robert Frost

  Humor, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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• Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

  Kevin Spacey

  Humor, Numbers, Dumb

  "Edinburgh TV Fest: Kevin Spacey Tells Industry 'It's the Creatives, Stupid'" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 22, 2013.

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• Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

  Bill Murray

  Humor, Dying, Records

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• Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

  Seth Godin

  Humor, Generosity, Perfection

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• Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Nature, Humor, Independent

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• Nothing is stronger than habit.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Humor, Famous Basketball

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• Sometimes you have to be lucky, but I always say that to be lucky, you have to fight for it.

  Jonas Hiller

  Humor, Fighting, Lucky

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• When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

  Ayn Rand

  Hope, Crazy, Inspiration

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.103, Penguin

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• To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Humor, Animal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.197, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The things that matter most are not things.

  Art Buchwald

  Humor, Matter, Things That Matter

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• Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

  David Mamet

  Humor, Want, Lost

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.84, Penguin

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• Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

  Richelle Mead

  Party, Home, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

  Jean Plaidy

  Sophia, Our Lives

  Jean Plaidy (2010). “The Captive of Kensington Palace: (Queen Victoria)”, p.76, Random House

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• The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Humor, Men

  Aristotle (2015). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

  Christopher McCandless

  Mean, Humor, Circumstances

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• Language buries, but does not resurrect.

  John Green

  Doe, Language

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.68, Penguin

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• The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

  Napoleon Hill

  Humor, Focus, Mind

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• True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.

  James Arthur Ray

  Humor, Gone, Wealth

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• Think of fear as a 2-year-old child who doesn't want to go grocery shopping with you. Because you must buy groceries, you'll just have to take the two year old with you. Fear is no different. In other words, acknowledge that fear exists but don't let it keep you from doing important tasks.

  Jack Canfield

  Children, Humor, Thinking

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• I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Humor, Artist, Thinking

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• Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

  Ayn Rand

  Humor, Action, Hypocritical

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• Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.

  David Ogilvy

  Humor, Marketing, Failing

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• Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Humor, Movement, Degenerates

  "The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1967.

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• The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

  Epicurus

  Death, Art, Philosophical

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

  Charles Bukowski

  Faith, Confidence, Stupid

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