Easier Quotes - Page 7

• One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world’s people, those of the West included, are taught to believe rather than to think. It’s much easier to believe than to think. People seldom think seriously about that which we are taught to believe, because we are all creatures of imitation and habit.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

  Frank Delaney

  Easy, Difficult

  Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.48, Random House

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• Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

  Seth Godin

  Peace, Jobs, Passion

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.174, Penguin

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• Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hurt, Tired, Past

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• If Nightcloud were a gentle, loving cat like Leafpool, or feisty and warmhearted like Squirrelflight, it would be easier to feel sorry for her. After all, Crowfeather took her as a mate to prove he was loyal to WindClan in spite of everything of trying to run off with the ThunderClan medicine cat. But she's a difficult she-cat to like, with her short temper and her possessivness over Crowfeather and her son, Breezepaw.

  Erin Hunter

  Running, Sorry, Cat

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• Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easier not to know what obstacles were in the way.

  Maureen Johnson

  Life, Way, Obstacles

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• I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.

  Natalie Portman

  School, Character, People

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• What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect. It’s too bad there’s no recipe for happiness. Happiness is more like pastry—which is to say that you can take pains to keep cool and not overwork the dough, but if you don’t have that certain light touch, your best efforts still fall flat. The work-around is to buy what you need. I’m talking about pastry, not happiness, although money does make things easier all around.

  Josh Lanyon

  Pain, Fall, Light

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• I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

  Patricia Briggs

  Grateful, Fate, Giving

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.212, Penguin

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• Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Path, Truth Is

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• sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go to the kitchen, and pour myself a whiskey. glass in hand, i'd look down at the darkened cemetary across teh way and the headlights of the cars on the road. the moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. if i could cry, it might make things easier. but what would i cry over? i was too self centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Fall, Dark

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 13, 2012

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• It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

  Maureen Johnson

  Book, Bye, Hello

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• Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Relationship, Book, Female

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.133, Penguin

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• People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort. I could, however, make myself insane, if I wished. (Though if I achieved the second, I might be able to make myself think I'd achieved the first....) Anyway, if there's a lesson to be learned, it's this: great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable. Or, in easier terms, distinguishing between Popsicles and insanity. Any questions?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, Years, Lessons To Be Learned

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.179, Macmillan

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• No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.

  Lionel Shriver

  Pain, Real, Years

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.367, Profile Books

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• That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Blood, Secret, Ink

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.466, Penguin

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• Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Common, Forget, Rich

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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Real, Ignorance

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• I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Goodbye, Hate, People

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• As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.

  Jodi Picoult

  Responsibility, Happens, Dies

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, World, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Motivational, Doors, People

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Heart, Laughing, Ambitious

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• You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

  Justina Chen

  Running, Guy, Way

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• I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things.

  Deb Caletti

  Children, Growing Up, Betrayal

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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