Love Quote by Jim Shepard Download Open image “What makes us threaten the things we want most?” — Jim Shepard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Love Want
Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves. — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are. — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
This objective of getting what we want from other people-or getting them to do what we want them to do-threatens the autonomy of people,… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
It is important for us consciously to say, or claim, only the things we want rather than what we do not want. — Darren L Johnson Copy Share Image
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“If we examine what is behind our desires, we can usually get what we want without compromising: love, caring, confidence, respectability, excitement. Compromising is… — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
“when people encounter a significant threat, a response called “threat rigidity” sets in. The instinct of threat rigidity is to cease being flexible and… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how you negotiate… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
I don't think conservativism is about a deficiency. I think it's about a commitment to an ideology that has to in some ways devalue… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other.… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at procrastination. But… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
“But what I did was the kind of thing you'd do and the kind of thing you've done: I felt bad for him and… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young director who… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B)… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
“But this is the only account hand-copied and tacked to my bulletin board, the testimony of a Dutch pilot caught on shore near Anjer,… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere." — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I love going to Columbia, Missouri. That is a really underrated campus. It shocked me when I went there because I really didn't know… — Kirk Herbstreit Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
“To be loved by a man, truly loved, made a woman feel as if she could burst. Of course, Lia was strong and could… — Melody Anne Copy Share Image
So when you take those tears, don't look to see I'm alright. ........*Seal - Violet — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
