Why Not Quotes - Page 19

• Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not call it the consummate science — which gets its perfection from seeming imperfection.

  John Marin

  Art, Perfection, Done

  "John Marin".

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• If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what’s happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon.

  Diane Coyle

  Book, Thinking, Laughing

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• I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.

  Maddox

  Football, Real, Years

  "Ikaruga". www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net.

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• You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?

  Lisa Mangum

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

  Bradford Cox

  Being Yourself, Struggle, Tired

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• Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?

  Tony Robbins

  Stress, Years, Laughing

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• The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

  Matt Cutts

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.

  Laird Hamilton

  Morning, Rip, Ideas

  Laird Hamilton (2010). “Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul (And, of Course, Surfing)”, p.11, Rodale

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• Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.

  Joshua Ferris

  Life, Dog, Sunset

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• The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?

  Mother Meera

  Wind, Sea, Rivers

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• The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

  Victoria Moran

  Play, Ideas, Godmother

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• Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

  Sean Hannity

  Law, People, Starting Over

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• Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Education, Asking Why, Understanding

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.130, Penguin

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• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

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• Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

  Abraham Maslow

  Technology, Joy, Wells

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• Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a hundred ways. All you have to do is look for the best in that person, and then show it to them, right then and there. Describe it. Admire it. Thank them for it. Why not practice it with the first three people you encounter after reading this?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Jobs, Reading, Practice

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 20, 2016

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• Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.

  Colman McCarthy

  Children, School, Giving

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• The world of fashion. I'm interested in the world, not in fashion! But, maybe I was too quick to put down fashion. Why not look at it without prejudice? Why not examine it like any other industry, like the movies for example?

  Wim Wenders

  Fashion, Example, Prejudice

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• Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built on. People miss so much because they want money and comfort and pride, a house and a job to pay for the house. And they have to get a car. You can’t see anything from a car. It’s moving too fast. People take vacations. That’s their reward—the vacation. Why not the life?

  Jack Gilbert

  Jobs, Moving, Pride

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• Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

  Frederick Busch

  Littles, Pounds, Thanks

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• Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more & more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Sex, Mistake, America

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• Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, People

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?

  Christian D. Larson

  Inspire, Impossible, Imagine

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.397, Penguin

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• Remember, life is for living and learning. So listen to your life and the lessons it offers. What choices must you make this day to help you move forward? Make your list of the things you can do right now to create what you want and begin to do the work. You can say yes to happiness, wholeness, and prosperity. You can live fully and creatively. You can claim your power to choose. Why not claim it now?

  Susan L. Taylor

  Life, Moving, Choices

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.71, Anchor

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• I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Unique, People, Answers

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