Everyday Quotes - Page 26

• Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk
  about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going.
  They're like bread; you need to hear and tell them everyday.

  Bill Harley

  Heart, Needs, Stories

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• The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

  Aries Spears

  Everyday Things, Exaggeration Is, Average

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• Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Mean, Math

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.626, Psychology Press

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• Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box - a valuable ability in today's world.

  Keith Devlin

  Education, Real, School

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• The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

  Michael A. Hess

  Lying, Impact, Ideas

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• Everyday is another chance to get things right.

  Lauryn Hill

  Hope, Fresh Start, Another Chance

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• He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Home, Men

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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• It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.

  Michel de Certeau

  Moving, Writing, Practice

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• Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

  Michel de Certeau

  Poaching, Way, Property

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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• Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

  K.P. Yohannan

  United States, Missionary, Asia

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Revolution in World Missions”, Gfa Books

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• Wouldn’t it be amazing, getting up everyday and playing; doing something that you love to do?

  Sidney Crosby

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• The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Delicate Things, People, Asking

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1998.

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• The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Motivation, Inspiration, America

  "The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World". "Placemakers" with Rebecca Sheir, www.slate.com. November 7, 2016.

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• The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.

  William Greider

  Might, Quests, Danger

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• Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities. Rather, lose yourself in God. When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him. Live in His presence and abide in Him. Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.

  Basilea Schlink

  Heart, Rich, Eternity

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• You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites
  you and what scares you everyday, not by
  trying to find your passion.

  Derek Sivers

  Passion, Trying, Scare

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• I don't know if sitting home everyday is normal, but that's what I do.

  Daniel Johns

  Home, Sitting, Normal

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• One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.

  Steven Johnson

  Book, Love Is, Europe

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• The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

  Donald A. Norman

  Everyday Things, Design, Unnecessary Things

  Donald A. Norman (2013). “The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.183, Basic Books

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• Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Often Is, Speech

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

  Alain de Botton

  Practice, Ideas, Problem

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• All you can do everyday, is do what you believe is right. That's what I do, and what will be, will be.

  David Icke

  Believe, Can Do

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• Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.

  Vincent Price

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• I really don't know why we need a whole month dedicated to blacks. It's not like they're the only ones that suffered. I mean, what about us whites? We're the ones that have to deal with these monkeys everyday, but you don't see us demanding a whole month to ourselves.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Needs, Monkeys

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• Everyday I question myself. I look in the mirror, or read one of my scripts, or I reflect on my acting and I say to myself 'that was good...but was it Zach Braff good?' Lets just say things have been looking pretty Zach Braff so far.

  Zach Braff

  Mirrors, Acting, Looks

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