The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill,… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better,… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“There is no you, Maria, any more than there is a me. There is only this way that we have established over… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I certainly don't feel there's a distinction to be made between a television and a film actor. I think there's a distinction… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Pristine vulnerability is just so boring to me. The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowland's in 'A Woman Under… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game,… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say, Top Hat was… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness,… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
I was a teenager, and I went to see the Superman movie, and up to the point I walked into that movie,… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get… — Billy Evans Copy Share Image
Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
A defining moment in my life was my first actual VMA performance… That was the first time in my head I said… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
The intimate conversations have its moments, because you have to sell the characters, because there is so much going on. It's so… — Eleanor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every… — Mr. Lee Copy Share Image
I can't say I ever wanted to become an entertainer. I already was one, sort of-around the house, at school, doing my… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical… — Joe Johnston Copy Share Image
Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director -… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I would want to be known as a great singer; that the records I've made and the performances that I've done to… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
I just like working. I'm not good with downtime. I need to be doing something. I'm a music person, so I'll always… — Megan Hilty Copy Share Image
I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big,… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The switch from ten-cylinder to eight-cylinder engines means that each manufacturer has to redevelop its power train. Not all will manage to… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
