Construal Theory Quotes & Sayings

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment. — Joe Scarborough

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it. — Slim Moon

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that. — Stephen King

A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience. — Cesare Pavese

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself. — Carmelo Anthony

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction. — Cassandra Clare

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said. — Robbie Williams

God bless you! Well, go, love Ivan! was the last word that burst from Mitya. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't. — Padgett Powell

There is only one real comfort and it's not a feeling. It is the comfort of oneness. — John De Ruiter

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. — Scott Caan

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond ... flesh, the moment of being alive ... then nothing. I had searched in superstition ... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so ... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me ... I saw that those simple things might be true ... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence. — Sebastian Faulks

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player ... The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart. — Marianne Williamson

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work. — Famke Janssen

... in a snap the world can fall down around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy. — Lee Martin