Micromoments Quotes & Sayings

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't — Jeff Smith

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster. — Brian Tracy

When I look down, I miss all the good stuff
And when I look up, I just trip over things ... — Ani DiFranco

There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary. — Pope Pius XII

We Chinese did not like to give or receive certain gifts for superstitious reasons: knives, because they could sever a relationship; handkerchiefs, for they portended weeping; and clocks, as they were thought to measure out the days of your life. — Yangsze Choo

That's what I was supposed to say... — Richelle Mead

There are three kinds of people and three kinds of richness:
- people who want to have, to collect
- people who want action, work and labor
- people who want to be
The real richness is in be-ness. People can take all that you have, all that you collected. People can stop your labor, or an accident can stop you. When you are, you never lose what you are. — Torkom Saraydarian

At one level the story of the second fall of Zimbabwe can be read as tragic yet a courageous one: a simple but soaring binary about unfounded courage in the face of immeasurable oppression. But at another level, it is a window into a much more complex, perhaps even darker and sadder, narrative about contemporary slaveship and the terrible collision of aspiration and frustration and the need to survive that has been unleashed upon the people of Zimbabwe. Exploitation and oppression are not matters of race. — Thabo Katlholo

Knowledge, then, can be dangerous because a rational mind may be compelled to use it in rational ways, allowing malevolent or careless speakers to commandeer our faculties against us. This makes the expressive power of language a mixed blessing: it lets us learn what we want to know, but it also lets us learn what we don't want to know. Language is not just a window into human nature but a fistula: an open wound through which our innards are exposed to an infectious world. It's not surprising that we expect people to sheathe their words in politeness and innuendo and other forms of doublespeak. — Steven Pinker

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person. — Chris Prentiss

The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way. — Eileen Myles

Love is when your heart wraps around something and won't let go. — Rebecca Stead

I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot. — Jim McKay