Usually Quotes
4349 quotes by 3077 authors
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Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as…
— Bruce Feiler
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Solo homers usually come with no one on base.
— Ralph Kiner
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I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write.…
— Michael Tomasky
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The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
— Donna Leon
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Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life than…
— John Welwood
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Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of…
— Michel Houellebecq
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I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.
— Mario Testino
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Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know…
— C. Wright Mills
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Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence…
— Branch Rickey
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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
— Richard Rohr
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I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities…
— Edmund Hillary
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Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.
— Tim Ferriss
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There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!
— David Allen
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Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
— Justin Theroux
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Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.
— Shigeo Shingo
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I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the…
— Billy Collins
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It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to…
— G. H. Hardy
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Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source…
— Frank Chodorov
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When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add…
— Dan Ariely
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The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually…
— Saul Bass
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