Easier Quotes - Page 17

• Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'

  Albert Einstein

  Running, Hard Work, Simple

  "Einstein Sees Lack In Applying Science; Man Has "Not Yet Learned To Make Sensible Use Of It," He Asserts. Cites War And Machinery He Urges California Students To Seek To Put Knowledge To Good Of The Race", www.nytimes.com. February 17, 1931.

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• It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Wise, Wisdom, Courage

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• So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance will seem easier.

  Deborah Bull

  Dance, Running, Eight

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• It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Passion, Worry

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• It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Running, Government, Politics

  1977 In Time, 6 Jun.

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• Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Apology

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• We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go hand in hand.

  Michael Lerner

  God, Spiritual, Caring

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• As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it.

  Helen Mirren

  Men, Thinking, Age

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• ...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Home, Journey, Sailing

  Thor Heyerdahl (1958). “Aku-Aku The Secret of Easter Island”

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• Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Adversity

  Charles Stanley (1991). “How to Handle Adversity”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name as Hindus, Russians, or what you will. It is so much easier to label people, for then you can pass by and kick them, drop a bomb on India or Japan.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Japan, Names

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• The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• It's actually easier to truly become a person of good character than to persuade others we are what we are not.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Good Character, Persons

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• It's easier to make a good person better than to make a bad person good.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Good Person, Persons

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• Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.216, RosettaBooks

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• I just kinda do what I feel. I never knew what lane I would fill, [or that] I would fill a lane at all. I didn't even really contemplate that far down the road. I just started having fun, and a lot of that came from me seeing Wayne dare to be different, and I started feeling like I can be a multifaceted rapper. I don't have to be a one-dimensional female rapper. Once I put that in perspective, it was like everything just got easier for me, because I no longer wanted to fit in anybody's box... I just wanted to be Nicki.

  Nicki Minaj

  Being Yourself, Fun, Rapper

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• Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.

  Yogaswami

  Blessing, Thoughtful, Ill Health

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• It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Creating, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1860). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.119

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• It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Atheist, Thinking, World

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• It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And to the millions of such prospective immigrants from poverty to prosperity, there is, rightly or wrongly, no place that looks more attractive than the United States. Given its head, and subject to no restrictions, this pressure will find its termination only when the levels of overpopulation and poverty in the United States are equal to those of the countries from which these people are now so anxious to escape.

  George F. Kennan

  Running, Country, People

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• Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It's so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.

  Donald Trump

  Confidence, Feel Good, Want

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• You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

  Hsu Yun

  Spiritual, Flower, Copying

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• The water here in Cardiff is much easier than in London, so for us it is more relaxing paddling here. This race is for us a continuation of our training, we will compete in only this World cup. We don't want to travel too much before the Olympic Games and we want to focus on the Games.

  Pavol Hochschorner

  Athlete, Race, Games

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• When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.

  Greg Rusedski

  Athlete, Magic, Young

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• Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

  Jim Rohn

  Life And Love, Skills, Challenges

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