Anuencia Def Quotes & Sayings

Self-control and deliberate thought apparently draw on the same limited budget of effort.... This is how the law of least effort comes to be a law. Even in the absence of time pressure, maintaining a coherent train of thought requires discipline. — Daniel Kahneman

All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them. — Patricia Polacco

Did he live in a false world, a world that had grown simply to suit him, and was his present slight irritation - in the face now of Jim's silence in particular - but the alarm of the vain thing menaced by the touch of the real? — Henry James

Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me ... I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens. — Maggie Stiefvater

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story". — Ken Burns

I think that when you're doing an under-four-million-dollar movie, you just can't throw money at the problems. — Christine Vachon

I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody. — Nick Saban

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else. — V.S. Pritchett

I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time. — Isaac Asimov

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable. — Achim Steiner

Life is a DNA software system. — Craig Venter

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. — Thor Heyerdahl