Recurring Quotes
90 quotes by 85 authors
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Start with changing behaviors, not mindsets. It is much easier to 'act your way into new thinking' than to 'think your way into new actions.'…
— Jon Katzenbach
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A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple…
— R. S. Thomas
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Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find…
— Roger Angell
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I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time.
— Keir Dullea
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My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your…
— Richard Saul Wurman
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Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns…
— Dan Miller
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I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.
— Azar Nafisi
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such…
— Frank Herbert
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I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people…
— Greg Kinnear
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There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change,…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.
— Charles Lindbergh
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At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.
— Marcel Proust
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I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.
— Jules Feiffer
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Love's a recurring theme through my work.
— Tracy Chapman
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I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated…
— Konrad Lorenz
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America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is…
— Don DeLillo
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My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I…
— Cristin Milioti
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Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a…
— Jon Ronson
Who Wrote These Recurring Quotes
85 authors contributed a total of 90 Recurring Quotes, led by these top contributors: