Durning Effect Quotes & Sayings

Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work. — Felicia Day

He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it. — China Mieville

Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design and it is a clear and concrete proof of the fundamental human right to live. — Kenji Ekuan

You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies. — Jane Fonda

Horns always influenced me more than voices. — Sarah Vaughan

Memory is the same as water. It is a still lake bathed in moonlight, a vast ocean, a violent river ready to carry you away. It can calm you or it can harm you; it is both more powerful and weaker than you'd think. It is a paradox. — T. Greenwood

Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the historian, but because they have some other agenda that this denial serves. — Bart D. Ehrman

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world ... concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects. — Julian Jaynes

Faith is a continuation of reason. — William Adams

Dying wasn't so bad, not really. Not when you could go out like this, on a summer's evening with the fireflies winking in the trees. She always thought dying would be a scream into a void, a thrashing, a searing. Not this slow and sleepy drip. — Megan Shepherd

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles. — Georges Courteline

No one ever lost his job by listening too much. — Calvin Coolidge

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience. — Frank Grillo