Instead Quotes
6491 quotes by 4013 authors
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Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But…
— Gerry Lindgren
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As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying…
— Marriner Stoddard Eccles
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When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse…
— David Eagleman
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The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but…
— David Eagleman
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I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It’s like…
— Ronnie Spector
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Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.
— John Maeda
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Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they…
— Edward Tufte
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The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement…
— William Farr
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To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That's…
— Beth Ditto
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I grew up like Athena—covered with playing cards instead of armor—and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.
— Ricky Jay
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Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you…
— Jane Powell
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My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish.…
— Teresa Heinz
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The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span…
— Julian Castro
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Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to receive mercy but he kept his stiff-neck held high. He came to…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.
— Ogden Nash
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Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends,…
— Ogden Nash
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Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
— Ogden Nash
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To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple.…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.
— Anne Rivers Siddons
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My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing…
— Cathy Guisewite
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