Everyday Life Quotes - Page 15

• I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there I'll just tell a little story about the things that happen in my everyday life. People seem to enjoy them well enough.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, People, Everyday

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• Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Reality, Sky, Everyday

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

  Hilary Swank

  Past, Boxing, Everyday

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that works the land. Human relationships aren't professionalized or contractualized; family and friends take primacy. Life has much more continuity than discontinuity. There's a great deal of poetry in everyday life.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Time, Land, Community

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• The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.

  Sissela Bok

  Children, Opportunity, Long

  "Mayhem – Violence as Public Entertainment, Part I". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. March 4, 1998.

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• If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

  Vera Brittain

  Character, Interesting, People

  Vera Brittain (1948). “On being an author”

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• I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Believe, Everyday

  International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.

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• The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.

  Johannes Grenzfurthner

  Successful, Technology, Political

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• The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

  James H. Austin

  Everyday, Messages, Moments

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.19, MIT Press

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• In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch with human beings is fraught with a significance lacking in the too hurried intercourse of ordinary everyday life. On the desert track, there is no such thing as a casual meeting.

  Mildred Cable

  Track, Everyday, Normal

  Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

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• Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out of the air, from nowhere, sometimes they're biographical, or sometimes they're other things [everyday life].

  Brian Evenson

  Book, Ideas, Air

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.

  Pete Seeger

  Men, Thinking, Everyday

  Source: peoplesworld.org

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• Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a better future and a common good. If I believed there was an afterlife I would have so much less motive for filling this life with every experience that is offered up to me.

  Stephen Fry

  Afterlife, People, Inspire

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• great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Discovery, Innovation, Everyday

  Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.40

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• A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.

  African Spir

  Sacrifice, Men, Reflection

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 53), 1937.

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• When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

  Denise Linn

  Creative, Everyday, Dimensions

  Denise Linn (2010). “Unlock the Secret Messages of Your Body!: The 28-Day Jump-Start Program for Radiant Health and Glorious Vitality”, p.164, Hay House, Inc

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• Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

  Jack Gleeson

  Everyday, Kind, Fame

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• In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.

  James Wolk

  Jeans, Guy, Everyday

  "Hot Topic: Political Animals' Sebastian Stan and James Wolk" by Nojan Aminosharei and Julie Vadnal, www.elle.com. July 13, 2012.

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• My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.

  Radka Donnell

  Art, Quilts, Silence

  Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns

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• To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.

  Roger Federer

  Running, People, Everyday

  "Q&A-Tennis-Federer's heart is in South Africa". Interview with Xola Potelwa, www.reuters.com. February 22, 2013.

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• My kids are my No. 1 priority. Theyre the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.

  Thalia

  Kids, Eye, Responsibility

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• We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Decisions We Make, People, Everyday

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• Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.

  Kenya Hara

  Ideas, Design, Everyday

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• I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.

  Sergei Bubka

  Sports, Running, Thinking

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• Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Real, People, Everyday

  "Krzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So..." Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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