Easier Quotes - Page 37

• Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep.

  Tucker Max

  Careers, Auditions, Harder

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• Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Skeletons, Coconuts, Chess

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• Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

  Evan Parker

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw attention to my book and give me more publicity and help me sell more books. So I think that they decided that the best thing for them to do is to say nothing. Also, I think that some of my critics simply can't refute my argument - and so it's easier for them to ignore it as well, so that they're not forced to confront the logical contradiction in their own position.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Book, Thinking, Giving

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• Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Kids, Order

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• It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

  Vin Scully

  Lazy, Laziness, Runners

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• When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.

  Shai Agassi

  Dream, Reality, Translate

  "Driven: Shai Agassi's audacious plan to put electric cars on the road" by Daniel Roth, www.wired.com. August 18, 2008.

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• Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.

  David LaChapelle

  Opportunity, Photographer, Given

  "David LaChapelle: 'I Would Rather Die Than Be a Serious Artist, or a Fake Artist'". Interview with Jeanine Celeste Pang, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2010.

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• Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together

  Roger McGough

  Thinking, Yes You Can, Together

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• To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

  Benjamin Graham

  People, Looks, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Making It Up as I Go Along". AARP The Magazine, Volume 52, No. 4A, July/August 2009.

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• For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

  Quintilian

  Mind, Teach

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

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• It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

  Lucretius

  Strong, Way, Fool

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Rolfe Humphries (1968). “The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus”, p.153, Indiana University Press

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• We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they’re not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes.

  David Platt

  Real, Names, Arms

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• Sometimes, it`s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It`s like there`s less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn`t know you.

  Linwood Barclay

  Risk, Sometimes, Stranger

  Linwood Barclay (2007). “No Time for Goodbye”, p.126, Bantam

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• Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them.

  Tim Ferriss

  Creating, Demand, Filling

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

  David Allen

  Brain, Outcomes, Steps

  David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.69, Penguin

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• I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.

  Nancy Johnson

  Mean, Differences, World

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• I have a dream: that in my job, everything goes a bit faster. Five minutes hair, make-up five minutes, ten minutes and ready for a good picture. That would make life much easier.

  Lara Stone

  Dream, Jobs, Hair

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• There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Order, Goal, Priorities

  Shigeo Shingo (1988). “Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement”, p.94, CRC Press

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• Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

  David Rakoff

  Writing, Guarantees That, Wells

  FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Apr 22, 2013

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• Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

  Kid Rock

  Rocks, White, Rock N Roll

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• We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.

  Edith Stein

  Men, Giving, Desire

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.57, ICS Publications

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• Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Tired, Would Be, Stories

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