Sorting Quotes

• We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

  E. B. White

  Running, Wine, Long

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

  Sarah Zettel

  Work, Ideas, Stories

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• By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ambition, Gryffindor, Hogwarts

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• The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.

  Robert Adams

  Letting Go, Hurt, Simple

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• Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Brave, Gryffindor

  J. K. Rowling, “Sorting Hat's Song (Book 1)”

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• Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Trying, Sorting Out

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2015). “Stories and Prose Poems”, p.185, Macmillan

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• I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.

  Barack Obama

  Habit, Figures, Filing

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference", November 14, 2016.

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• You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil.

  J. K. Rowling

  Toil, Loyal, Might

  J. K. Rowling, “Sorting Hat's Song (Book 1)”

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• Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Mind, Gryffindor

  J. K. Rowling, “Sorting Hat's Song (Book 1)”

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• After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.

  John Lennon

  Order, Should Have, Views

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

  Mark Nepo

  Energy

  Mark Nepo (2015). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

  Charles Handy

  Responsibility, Substitutes, Efficient

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, p.10, Harvard Business Press

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• Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.

  David Hemmings

  Littles, Disaster

  "Fictional character: Thomas". "Blow-Up", 1966.

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• Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Trying, Sorting Out

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• In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government--which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

  Helen Prejean

  Government, Feelings, Sorting Out

  Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.21, Vintage

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• Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Defining Ourselves

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• But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Sorting Out, Messages

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• I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

  Robert Smith

  Adults, Way, Photograph

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• One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.

  Edward de Bono

  Memories, Book, Thinking

  Edward De Bono (2010). “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Mother, Husband, Mean

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• You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Past, Sorting Out

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.140, Penguin

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• But, yeah, it was just the regular audition process. There were a couple people telling me about it and that they were looking for the actors, but my manager is pretty good at sorting that out. And, (casting director) Rene Haynes cast me in Into the West, and she's always kept in touch and been a real big supporter of my career.

  Tinsel Korey

  Couple, Real, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Memories, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For one work we developed a human hair felt, which involved collecting and sorting hundreds of kilos of human hair, and then blending it will a tiny percentage of black merino followed by carding and felting.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Hair, Black, Tiny

  Source: www.patriciapiccinini.net

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• Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Decision, Wish

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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