I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I’m feeling and what I’m thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
That’s what I used to enjoy so much: Bringing a record home, having it arrive in the mailbox. Having the whole experience of hearing it as you’re holding it and looking at it and reading the liner notes, if they’re anything.
We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.
The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper – perhaps Welsh rarebit – and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.
I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn’t get there, that touches me a lot.
There’s stuff going on in the world right now, which you can’t imagine why is this happening; it’s crazy. I don’t know what the answer is, but if you didn’t have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we’d all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone’s time.
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.
Look at electricity in human history – it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will be the same. At some point in the future, we will arrive at a new era of low-hanging fruit.
If we arrive at a saner world in which the maximum human potential is cultivated in every person, our descendants will not understand why our world produced only one Louis Pasteur, one Edison, one Tesla, or one Salk, and why great achievements in our age were the products of a relative few.
I’m the one who gets called up about a problem. I’m the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I’m the one who gets blamed if the police don’t arrive. I’m the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.
I’ve always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn’t matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.
Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.
I really don’t retain information – by the time I arrive wherever I’m going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.
There are lots of things one can criticise about the European parliament, but it does work pretty well in terms of the speed with which you can vote, the fact that there’s room to sit, the fact that there are offices when you arrive.
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
I don’t have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I’m one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect the kids, because I want to get this paragraph just right.
Grief is exhausting. When you learn – maybe through my age or experience – trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it’s really necessary and can arrive.
Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.
Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you’re building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version – so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.
Onboarding starts with satisfying the most basic of Maslow’s psychological needs: belonging. New hires shouldn’t arrive to an empty cube and be forced to forage through corridors searching for a computer and the bare necessities of office life. A new hire isn’t a surprise visitor from out of town. Plan for their arrival.
I don’t have specific music for when I’m writing. I’m usually listening to the same playlist or ‘artist’ before I arrive at the computer as when I’m walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
I’ve always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I’m in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.
When coaches arrive at a club, we need to understand its history. If we don’t understand it, then we are destined to have a bad time.
One of the things that slaps you in the face when you arrive in Japan is their obsession with everything cute.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
In Luke, shepherds go to find Jesus. In Matthew, an unspecified number of wise men, sometimes portrayed as kings, arrive. Nativity plays usually throw all the elements together, with kings and shepherds beating a path to the stable.
The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!
Songs don’t just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and energy and self discipline into creating that kind of thing.
In the morning, Capra would arrive with twenty-or-so pages in which he’d written down all of his ideas. Most were terrible, then all of a sudden there would be one which was astounding.
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
I’ve been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.
To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.
Insights don’t usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I’m on the move. Or half-asleep.
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
I think it is always difficult for every manager, when you arrive with good motivation and ambition. It’s not just in the Chelsea dressing-room. For all coaches, it’s difficult.
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.
Contrary to what so many think, life for the stars of Hollywood TV or movies is really quite tame. You get up at 4 A.M., arrive at the studio by and shooting starts at 8. Then you keep on working until 7:30 or 8 P.M. or even 11 at night. By the time you get back home, you’re too exhausted for anything but sleep.
I’m not the biggest fan of airports. I try to arrive a few minutes before check-in closes.
Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.
It is not easy to arrive in a different country and adapt quickly, but I think I’m getting there, and I’m proud of that.
I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I’d arrive at something too soon.
Always arrive in plenty of time so that when you step on the train or sit down in the plane you’re relaxed, not hassled.
