Easy Way Quotes - Page 5

• The first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you use the necessity of cost cutting as an opportunity to do pruning or trimming for projects that aren't being as successful? But, you know, frequently those are the easy ones. I mean, there's always some kind of social costs internal to the company, but that's the easy way of looking at the future.

  Reid Hoffman

  Mean, Cutting, Successful

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.

  Pico Iyer

  Years, Childhood, Way

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• Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

  Robin Trower

  Thinking, People, Copying

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• There is the easy way and there is my way.

  Teresa Mummert

  Way, Easy, My Way

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• I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.

  Michiel Huisman

  Soccer, Children, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Easy way to make someone sound less powerful, just put DJ in front of their name...
  ..DJ Abraham Lincoln

  Demetri Martin

  Powerful, Names, Sound

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• I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Dream, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

  Yip Harburg

  Greatness, Men, Way

  "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2004.

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• Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.

  Brandon Boyd

  Song, People, Evil

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• I went to NYU for acting, for six years. I thought acting was the easy way out or in because I didn't put in enough effort in school, being a crazy kid in college. But, I was good at it, so that was the other side of it. I would love to direct. What I've learned from being on set is more how to deal with actors than even the visual part of it all.

  Drea de Matteo

  Crazy, School, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

  Rand Paul

  Taken, Way, Republican

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• Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who are we and who are the others who will come and take our resources. I think it's an animal and a human thing that we all see in terms of us vs. them, and race is a very easy way to separate who is us and who is them.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Animal, Race

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

  Daniel Dennett

  Smart, Effort, Matter

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.3, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Stars, Philosophy, Past

  Cecil Castellucci (2011). “Boy Proof”, p.66, Candlewick Press

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• Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

  Dogen

  Way, Easy

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• God doesn't believe in the easy way.

  James Agee

  Believe, Way, Belief

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.49, Penguin

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• I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. (…) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others.” (p. 257).

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Thinking, Self

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• Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

  Bill Gates

  Crazy, Hard Work, Men

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• Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Abortion, Awkward

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• It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Teacher, Parent

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• Sometimes we want to have growth without challenges and to develop strength without any struggle. But growth cannot come by taking the easy way. We clearly understand that an athlete who resists rigorous training will never become a world-class athlete. We must be careful that we don't resent the very things that help us put on the divine nature.

  Paul V. Johnson

  Struggle, Athlete, Class

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• When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in!

  Steven Morrissey

  Sleep, Giving, Debt

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• So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Thinking, Years

  "The Notebook". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Mindfulness

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• There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

  Adam Clymer

  Gone, Records, Way

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