Jay Griffiths Quotes

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

Jay Griffiths

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TimeClockMeasurementOppositeFact

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.

Meg Cabot

CharacterGreatStrongDecisionsMix

I like the eyeliner and fringe '60s look, like Anna Karina.

Jeanne Damas

LookLikeFringeAnna

I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

Steven Bochco

LifeMy LifeRememberJokeEvery

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Steven Pinker

PeopleWorldChanceUnderestimateUs

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

Tracy Chapman

LiveArtExpectationsThinkSomeone

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

Tom Peters

WorkSearchDoingPlanProveOut

The Japanese fans always send weird things.

Tom Felton

WeirdAlwaysThingsFansJapanese

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.

Robin S. Sharma

CompetitionReadingPlanningThinking

I actually don't mind whether people can choose the sex of the baby - in fact humans have been trying to do it for 3,000 years. But there is a real issue about the safety of the technique.

Robert Winston

PeopleMindSafetyBabyChooseSex

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Mohsin Hamid

YourselfEmpathyFindingPerson

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Jonathan Swift

LearningWordsWindNothing

If you do nothing you get nothing.

Aung San Suu Kyi

YouNothingGet

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