Reason Why Quotes - Page 17

• I learned that there's no reason why people decide they like music when they do.

  Lana Del Rey

  People, Reason, No Reason

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2011.

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• The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Genre Is, Challenges, Innovation

  Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks (2010). “The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.21, Writer's Digest Books

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• One of the reasons why I have no regular job, and why I have not had a regular job for years, is quite simply that my ideas differ from those of the gentlemen who hand out the jobs to individuals who think as they do. It is not just a question of my appearance, which is what they have sanctimoniously reproached me with. It goes deeper, I do assure you.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Jobs, Thinking, Hands

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.129, Parkstone International

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• There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents, Lincoln, Washington, or all of them. Nothing to do with that. The ski industry wanted a three-day weekend.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Holiday, Weekend

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• One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

  Matt Ross

  Fun, Trying, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I absolutely made the decision that that cannot be the reason why I'm doing a film or a job. For me, it's always about the script and whether I'm doing something that I've never done before.

  Jessica Chastain

  Jobs, Decision, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear as clothing or put it on as an ornament. It arises through the conjunction of various factors, but there is nothing about it that can be grasped. Likewise, thoughts that arise in the mind have no tangible existence or intrinsic solidity. There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Beautiful, Color, Should Have

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• One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

  Tablo

  Song, Reason, Replay

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• A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.

  Bruno Rossi

  Men, Feelings, Rays

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• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

  Edward Zwick

  Movie, Inspiring, People

  "Blood Diamond: Interview with Director Ed Zwick". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. November 14, 2006.

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• The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

  A. A. Milne

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Mean, Judging

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• The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Greatness, Church

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• I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Church, World

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.278, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

  Roméo Dallaire

  Believe, People, Made

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• Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

  William O. Douglas

  Brother, Powerful, World Government

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

  George Whitefield

  Nature, Fall, Son

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.284

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• The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

  John Stott

  Taken, People, Culture

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• In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it's okay we did whatever we did.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “The Burgess Boys”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Giving, Preparation

  "Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way". Book by Steven Pressfield, 2011.

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• The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in the world today is that we are not providing it in the present.

  George Soros

  Strong, Past, Feelings

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• Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Years, People, Abuse

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• Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

  William Empson

  Impossible, Remember, Proust

  William Empson (1966). “Seven Types of Ambiguity”, p.249, New Directions Publishing

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• In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.

  Lin Yutang

  Believe, Cutting, Thinking

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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