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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.
There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.
I became a starter in Portland, and then I lost my spot, but for what reason? It wasn't explained to me. I thought it was unfair.
Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.
Scientists have wonderfully explained the organization of the universe, but that's really all it claims to do, and I think it does that very successfully.
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.
Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.
Teens have a sensational narcissism and genuinely believe that their experiences are unique and can't be explained to adults. But we forgive them for their mistakes and naivete.
I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.
The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.
There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
Going to Columbia, the first thing I learned was 'safe space.' Every problem, they explained us, is because of white men.
I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.
Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .
Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.
You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.
It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be explained.
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.
It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.
When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.
What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.
...paranormal phenomena such as apports, prediction, telepathy, dowsing and the like can be explained by an extended physics as potentially real effects.
A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.
One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.
Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor
Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
Models today, she explained, don't understand that to be successful you have to have a personality, intelligence, and issues that you support, and Gisele embodies these qualities.
I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.
Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.
Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.
Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science
