Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure.
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.
Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.
In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'
Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading,' and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well.
I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way.
If you're in a ditch, and you're looking down, you can see where you're going but you can't see the way out.
It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.
There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.
When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.
If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
