Quotes About Things

great thinkers simply got stuck out of sheer curiosity investigating very general questions about the way things are.

cada vez es menos factible reflexionar sobre nuestra experiencia siguiendo la distinción entre imágenes y cosas, entre copias y originales

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

es precisamente esa ausencia de interés por la verdad –esa indiferencia ante el modo de ser de las cosas– lo que yo considero la esencia de la charlatanería." (Frankfurt, 2006: 44.).

Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.

Inspiration is one of my favorite things. That's all I want to do - I want to inspire people.

As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.

This innovation machine that's evolution, we can use it to do all sorts of interesting things.

It must have been marvelous when the century was young and things impressed themselves in such blatant vivid brilliance that an approaching fire under a starry sky could illuminate, even to a Crimean actress, this sense of "place" – that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.

average children do things right no -limit children do the right thing Eykis

No preguntarme nada. He visto que las cosas cuando buscan su curso encuentran su vacío.

In the hurry through which known and strange things pass, the strange things were sometimes very well known and the known things were often deeply strange.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

The searchlight of [God's] Spirit will probe the inner depths of your soul and reveal things that you think you have already yielded, but you have not.

When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Little things comfort us because little things distress us.

When I read that letter, I thought, we don't make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions."5

He was looking for versatile managers—he called them "athletes"—who could move fast and get big things done.

God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.

You're none of these things out of the past. I had shouted. None of these things … Angelina. I had bellowed this and there had been no protest from her.

On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child, an old Gene Pitney record. A parade of trivia with no place to go. Things that bump around in our consciousness for two or three days then go back to wherever they came from... to darkness. We've got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth.

The differences between the sexes are found in babies, and across cultures, too -so this is not some weird WEIRD phenomenom. Given a choice, neonate girls spend more time looking at faces, while neonate boys spend more time looking at things.