Easier Quotes - Page 24

• Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

  Greg Egan

  Book, Conceited, Firsts

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• How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Self, Realization

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'" by Eric Hoffer in The New York Times Magazine (p. 60), April 25, 1971.

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• And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with your self and hopefully, with an audience. They can learn all these new techniques and think that they're easier to use, but creating great images isn't about the tools.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Photography, Real, Thinking

  "Master Interview; Jerry Uelsmann". Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, www.shutterbug.com. September 1, 2007..

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• I have a few tricks and dribbles which I use a lot and when I am playing well, it is natural that they become easier. But the tricks I use are the ones that will hopefully benefit the team. What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Team, Winning

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• It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.

  Chris Witty

  Motivational, Accomplishment, Limits

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• The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.

  Winston Churchill

  Eye, Looks, Censorship

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• The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.

  Jerry Mander

  Trying, Culture, Roles

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• All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

  Brian Tracy

  Money, Adding Value, Wealth

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want-- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.230, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments. That should tell you something about the global warming debate...there is none right now....it's either you believe, or you are to be discredited.

  Mike Thompson

  Believe, Silence, Merit

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• When someone cares... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Friendship, Play, Laughing

  Susan Polis Schutz (1974). “Peace flows from the sky”, Blue Mountain Press

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• It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Atheist, World, Nationalism

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• It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.

  Terry Rossio

  Blunders, Young, Recognizing

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• Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.

  Terry Rossio

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Would Be

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• In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Quality, Use, Economics

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• The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.

  George Soros

  Would Be, Events, Imagine

  George Soros (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, Wiley

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• It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.

  Tom Brokaw

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• It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Country, Inspiration

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.261, Image

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• It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come up to me and say, 'I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.'

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Home, Kids

  "The Spellbinder: Gwyneth Paltrow" by Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

  Sergey Brin

  Motivation, Littles, Problem

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• Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Thinking, Enemy

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• The more clear and definite you make your picture then,and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be, and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Mind, Vision, Desire

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.27, GENERAL PRESS

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• It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Writing, Good Times, Theologian

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

  Richard Marcinko

  Change, Hurt, Confused

  Richard Marcinko (1997). “Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success”

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• I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Self Esteem, Book

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• A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier.

  Frank Leahy

  Communication, Messages, Language

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