Elizabeth Thornton Quotes

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

Elizabeth Thornton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: January 24, 1940 - July 12, 2010

Topics

ScienceThoughtsNegativeProblemUs

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

John Burnside

CarBookFindFirstDestroyTried

I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.

Jennifer Egan

ChildhoodNeverInvisibleAnything

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

Jenny Shipley

DecisionsNewTwoYearsZealand

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

John Hope

JourneyWorldGoBeyondOutTell

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

Ann Druyan

NatureHistoryStormUnderstand

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

Angela Merkel

HealthExperiencePartyImportant

I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.

Tom Paulin

EducationChildrenSchoolThreeUs

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Roberto Azevedo

WorkLimitsLearnPossibleWithin

My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it.

Misty Copeland

FamilyMoneyMeBasketballClothes

I love supernatural stuff. 'Battlestar Galactica' was my favorite show.

Janina Gavankar

LoveShowSupernaturalStuffI Love

I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'

Joss Whedon

LoveBookThinkBetterYouKnow

Gamers have this tendency to turn games into mathematical equations, breaking them into lists of components like 'presentation' and 'mechanics' and judging each one on its own merits.

Jason Schreier

JudgingGamesPresentationTurnOwn

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