No Reason Quotes

• You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Positive, Happiness

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)

  Frank Zappa

  Reason

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• Believe nothing,
  No matter where you read it,
  Or who has said it,
  Not even if I have said it,
  Unless it agrees with your own reason
  And your own common sense.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Success, Atheist

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• Not being heard is no reason for silence.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspiring, Silence, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.460, Modern Library

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• If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.

  James A. Owen

  Regret, Past, Reason

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• No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

  Julian Baggini

  Way, Assuming, Reason

  Julian Baggini, Peter S. Fosl (2011). “The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods”, p.123, John Wiley & Sons

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• Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade

  Reason, Form

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• Evil requires no reason.

  Alberto Manguel

  Evil, Reason

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.231, Vintage Canada

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• We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst enemies when we suffer a setback. From time to time everyone falls short of their goals. It's an illusion to believe that champions succeed because they do everything perfectly. You can be certain that every archer who hits the bull's-eye has also missed the bull's-eye a thousand times while learning the skill.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Believe, Fall

  Amby Burfoot (2009). “Runner's World Complete Book of Running: Everything You Need to Run for Weight Loss, Fitness, and Competition”, p.176, Rodale

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• I feel like it's my responsibility to be the greatest I can be. If I go out there and start making terrible music, I don't expect people to like me. If I'm making great music and there's no reason for people to not like me, that's when it's going to make me upset. People just need to take a chance and listen.

  Justin Bieber

  Responsibility, People, Upset

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Writing, Epic

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• The moment you discover in life that it's not about yourself, that it is about investing in others, I think you're entering a steadier state to be a great leader. Because above all, I think the main quality of a leader is to be a human being. There's no reason you are special because you happen to have this job or these responsibilities.

  Paul Polman

  Jobs, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them.

  Conor Oberst

  Believe, Cds, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Doubt, Use, Reason Why

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.23

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• When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.

  Washington Gladden

  Done, Reason, Duty

  Washington Gladden (1876). “Being a Christian: what it Means and how to Begin”, p.66

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• The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.

  Uta Hagen

  Character, Play, Looks

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.

  Jane Roberts

  Afterlife, Personality, Doe

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• If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles of sound reason, you have nothing to argue with. If you do not assume libertarian free will, you have no one to argue against. If you do not assume morality to be an objective commodity, you have no reason to argue in the first place.

  William J. Murray

  Law, Sound, Principles

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• There is no reason why anyone in this country should be lacking health care when America has the resources right now. It would not cost much more than what we are paying right now. As a matter of fact, Americans are paying for a universal standard of care. They are just not getting it because it is all about corporations making a profit. It is not about people. Support Medicare for all.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, America, People

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• The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

  Thomas Malthus

  Mean, Men, Race

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1798). “An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Imporvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers”, p.346, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

  Ed McMahon

  Nature, Smart, Community

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• If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the 'coach' or 'yelling surrogate' dad who will never be happy.

  John Hodgman

  Football, Dad, Men

  John Hodgman (2012). “That is All”, p.58, Penguin

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• I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Unique, Careers, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I find the fact that so few people buy albums to be strangely emancipating. There's absolutely no reason for 99% of musicians making albums to think about actually selling albums. So as a musician you can just make an album for the love of making albums.

  Moby

  Thinking, People, Musician

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Native American, Issues

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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