Can do Quote by Ian Bogost Download Open image “Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.” — Ian Bogost ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Can do Ordinary Purpose Seems Urgent
The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in. — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The urgent is other-oriented; its caused by someone else. Important things are self-directed and have the greatest value for you. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world. — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“We search for the ordinary when we are surrounded by the extraordinary.” — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences.… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun." — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there are only these three things where pleasure and delight are possible. Like oh, it's television and socialization and work, and then everything else is the smoke I have to somehow choke my way through in order… — Ian Bogost Copy Share
Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling. — Terrence Malick Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
If I had a million dollars, I just wouldn't just completely set back. I'd have to get out there and show my face to all these good people who like me, I have to get out there and show my face. The only thing that would set me back if I get sick or something or pass away, that's all… — Muddy Waters Copy Share
Anybody can be Prince Charming one day a year, with the dinner and the flowers and all that. But you know what impresses me?… — Ryan Howard Copy Share Image
And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights. — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than… — James Cook Copy Share Image
...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
