Best Things Quotes - Page 39

• I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

  Delia Smith

  Careers, People, Want

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• The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

  George Saunders

  Struggle, Writing, Tired

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• Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Laughing, Balance

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• The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Morning, Coffee, Buddhism

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• The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Taught

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• I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Thinking

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• The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Writing, Fire

  "Why Write?" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. October 15, 2007.

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• The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Two, Alcohol, Nicotine

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

  Michael Sheen

  Moving, Giving, Stories

  "Q&A: British Actor Michael Sheen Fights For The Damned United". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

  Andrew Tobias

  Years, America, United States

  "'I Have to Take a Call from My Russian Broker': Andrew Tobias Talks About His 'Vast Fortune'". Interview with Deborah Stead, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 1997.

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• The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

  Tanya Tucker

  People, Feelings, World

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• The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

  Dar Williams

  Song, Writing, Impact

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• It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

  Al Yankovic

  Self, Important, Done

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Wine, Names, Ikea

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

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• A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

  Douglas Pagels

  Friendship, Cute, Best Friend

  Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

  Jeremy Miller

  Attention, Sitting, Classroom

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• I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Teacher, Book, Upset

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• I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

  Jacki Weaver

  Winning, Awards, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.

  Ricky Williams

  Opportunity, Player, Trying

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• The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Alzheimer

  "'The best thing I ever did was stand up and say I have Alzheimer's': Terry Pratchett speaks to Fiona Phillips". www.mirror.co.uk. November 14, 2012.

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• Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Next, Good Work

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.264

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• When I committed to playing a little tennis in some exhibitions, it was the best thing for me. It got me in shape. It got me out of the house. It got me doing something I love to do.

  Pete Sampras

  Tennis, House, Exhibitions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

  Marjane Satrapi

  People, Answers, Should

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