Anca Lamse > Anca's Quotes

“The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life

“Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.”
― Veronica Roth , Divergent

“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“When people experience strong emotion, they can’t hear logic.”
― Mike Bechtle, People Can't Drive You Crazy If You Don't Give Them the Keys

“Celebrating small wins gives them something to repattern our life around.”
― BJ Fogg, PhD, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

“That’s the problem with our perspective; we always assume we’re right based on the information we have.”
― Mike Bechtle, People Can't Drive You Crazy If You Don't Give Them the Keys

“We interpret the actions of others as malicious when they might be totally innocent. And how we interpret their actions is what upsets us.”
― Mike Bechtle, People Can't Drive You Crazy If You Don't Give Them the Keys

“In the treatment of anxiety, a proper understanding of sovereignty is huge. Anxiety is often the consequence of perceived chaos. If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.”
― Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

“In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“history teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations.”
― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“You can disrupt a behavior you don’t want by removing the prompt. This isn’t always easy, but removing the prompt is your best first move to stop a behavior from happening.”
― B.J. Fogg, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

“It is not your business to succeed (no one can be sure of that) but to do right: when you have done so, the rest lies with God...”
― C.S. Lewis, Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C.S. Lewis

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“I have always believed that the primary function of doctors should be to teach people how not to get sick in the first place. The word “doctor” comes from the Latin word for “teacher.” Teaching prevention should be primary; treatment of existing disease, secondary. I”
― Andrew Weil, Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself

“We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.”
― G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results—or those heroes who focus on process rather than results.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“We grossly overestimate the length of the effect of misfortune on our lives. You think that the loss of your fortune or current position will be devastating, but you are probably wrong. More likely, you will adapt to anything, as you probably did after past misfortunes.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“You don't become completely free just by avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Ideas come and go, stories stay.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms