Quotations
Quotes:
Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then ‘process’
View quotes by Edward De Bono
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
View quotes by Galbraith
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
View quotes by Igor Stravinsky
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
View quotes by Marcel Duchamp
I putted atrociously. I am probably going to snap this putter in about eight pieces
View quotes by Tiger Woods
I tend to throw everything into these pieces and I don't want to do that, I've kind of burned myself out on that.
View quotes by Peter Banks
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking
View quotes by Gail Sheehy
Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
View quotes by J F C Fuller
One of the most subtle pieces of propaganda around in the cause of sense, humility and virtue [on The Simpsons]
View quotes by Rowan Williams
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
View quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
View quotes by Sigmund Freud
Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful
View quotes by Anarcharsis
Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy shit, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.
View quotes by Tara Reid
The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.
View quotes by John Grisham
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
View quotes by Thomas Huxley
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
View quotes by Anatol Rapoport
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
View quotes by Paavo Nurmi
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
View quotes by Gloria Naylor
America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
View quotes by Jesse Jackson
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