Easy Quotes - Page 38

• You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

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• Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

  John Locke

  Awkward, Imitation, Natural

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.79

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• Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.

  Lu Xun

  Dream, Humble, Thinking

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• It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

  John Osborne

  Answers, Ultimate Questions, Bother

  John Osborne (2013). “John Osborne Plays 1: Look Back in Anger; Epitaph for George Dillon; The World of Paul Slickey; Dejavu”, p.122, Faber & Faber

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• Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Years, Care

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• Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.

  Jon Landau

  Men, Self, White

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• It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

  George Leonard

  Real, Lying, Challenges

  George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

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• True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

  George Aiken

  Wise, Should Have, Land

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• We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

  John Wesley

  Use, Littles, Common

  Of preaching to 'plain people', in R. Southey 'Life of Wesley' (1820) ch. 16

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• Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

  Francis Bacon

  Life Is, Ability, Marshmallow

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• Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

  Colin Wilson

  Light, Knows, Ifs

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• There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Photographer, Possibility

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• It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

  Alan Ball

  Organization, Misunderstood, Mind

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• In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

  Charles Buxton

  Home, Irritation, Perfect

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”

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• It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.

  Fred Wilson

  Entrepreneur, Tools, Reputation

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• We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.

  John Adams

  Land, Balance, Liberty

  John Adams, Frederick K. Sanders (1975). “John Adams Speaking: Pound's Sources for the Adams Cantos”

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• What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.

  James Beard

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.

  Virgil

  Sweet, Dark, Night

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• I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.

  Adam Ant

  Song, Play, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

  Joe Walsh

  Perspective, Ego, Musical

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.

  Joe Walsh

  Years, Perspective, Advice

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.

  Kim Smith

  Writing, Emotional, Feelings

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• The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

  Martin Scorsese

  Problem, Certain, Consuming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.

  Nelly

  Artist, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.complex.com

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• It'd be nice to feel that claustrophobic feeling or the anxiety that the film Melancholia produces, but for me I look at it and think about what I was doing that day, where we shot it... It's kind of like a weird memory. It's more a photo album of memories than being able to feel connected to myself. It's not easy to do.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Memories, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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