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«If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
acknowledge, acknowledges, laughing, laugh at, My ideas, open to, particular, persuade
«Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done»
Author: Rudolf Flesch
| About:
Creativity,
Thinking
| Keywords:
creative, mean, particular, Particulars, realization, realizations, simply, The Way, thinking, virtue
«All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
absolute, abstraction, beauties, contain, creamed, creams, does not exist, element, emotions, eternal, forms, general, manifestation, particular, phenomena, surface, surface of, The Absolute, The Cream, The Eternal, The General, transitory
«Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.»
«Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
and so, and so on, appointed, appointing, appoints, at peace, communities, community, countries, elected, electing, elects, example, for example, individually, Inner peace, leaders, lie with, neighboring, One of Us, particular, share, starts
«A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
chilly, cram, crammed, cramming, crams, drawer, drawers, falls, force, for anything, interesting, in particular, open, particular, Particulars, past, recalling, recalls, safe, safes, searching
«How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!»
«A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
convinced, course of action, determination, must have, particular, stick, stick with, tough, undaunted
«Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular.»
«Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
addition, additions, Care of, genuinely, goods, high-powered, indifferent, inward, in addition, let go, particular, relief, renounces, renouncing, resign, resigning, resigns, sincerely
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