Picking Quotes
559 quotes by 509 authors
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Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.
— Jessica Mitford
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Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each…
— Susan Meiselas
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I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It's strange like that; not picking my path, but rather easing into the…
— Andrew McMahon
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Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.
— Koo Stark
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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem
— Herman Cain
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I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out…
— Mary Lou Williams
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I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to…
— Jeff Daniels
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All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no…
— Peter Lynch
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I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.
— Anita Baker
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All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.
— Thomas Perry
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Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the…
— Adriaan Kortlandt
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
— Adam Garcia
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Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock…
— Mark Twain
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There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.
— Joseph Curiale
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Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.
— Peter Senge
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Things are picking up...It's not going to make this thing go away... don't think you're going to find anybody deterred...There's a lot of people willing…
— Jerry Vlasak
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Defoe was level and anyone who says otherwise is picking hairs
— John Motson
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Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on…
— Todd Rundgren
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Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently…
— Victor J. Stenger
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