Top 406 Lists Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Lists have always implied social order.
Make lists of positive aspects. Make lists of things you love - and never complain about anything. And as you use those things that shine bright and make you feel good as your excuse to give your attention and be who-you-are, you will tune to who-you-are, and the whole world will begin to transform before your eyes. It is not your job to transform the world for others-but it is your job to transform it for you. A state of appreciation is pure Connection to Source where there is no perception of lack.
People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
Lists simplify, clarify, edify. — © Tom Peters
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
When it comes to my own makeup, I like to look fresh, clean, and well-rested-nothing too crazy. My mother really introduced me to beauty. She's obsessed with all of the magazines' 'best of' lists, like the ones in Allure, Glamour, and InStyle. Her beauty cabinet looks like one of those annual lists. She got me into finding staples, and as much as I love going to Neiman Marcus to just play around, generally, when I find something that I like, I stick with it for years.
As a chef, I like to be totally prepared. I'm so big on lists. I love lists.
He who has the pepper may season as he lists.
I think we have to look very strongly at no-fly lists and watch lists. And when people are on there, even if they shouldn't be on there, we'll help them, we'll help them legally, we'll help them get off.
I still have long lists of things that I want to accomplish every day.
I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.
I tend to over-prepare my shot lists.
I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.
To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.
I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me. — © Luis von Ahn
I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.
I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.
The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's a chronological progression, and there's a safety in that. Whereas if you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.
Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.
The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.
I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so; the eight essential qualities of such-and-such; the 11 delights of somewhere or other. We demand shortcuts, as if there are shortcuts to genuine experiences. These lists are meaningless.
Favorite movie lists are impossible for me to do.
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
Whether you write down your to-do lists in a notebook or use a tool like Evernote, to-do lists can be a real life-saver, since it reduces the stress of trying to remember things like a meeting or what you need to pick up at the grocery store.
I keep everything in Notepad: shopping lists, to-do lists, recipe tasting notes, my blog content calendar, recipe inspiration, blog-post drafts.
Generally speaking, there's some quality of compulsion that attaches itself to the idea of the list. It's true that lists organise the daily chaos of working life. But the impulse to make lists has to do with something more than either administrative practicalities or the record of a creative process.
Nixon had lists upon lists upon lists. They were tragic lists saying, 'Smile more,' or, 'Be stronger - remember, it is your job to spiritually uplift the nation.' This understanding of his limitations is heartbreaking.
We like lists because we don't want to die.
One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.
Make lists. Write down the things that give you power. Write down the things that take your power away also. Make lists of people close to you. Are you associations raising you to a higher level of attention?
Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.
I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!... The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs -- all the old clubs -- are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today.... Where is this 'vanished world' they talk about? I don't think the critics have looked out the window!
I love to-do lists.
All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
I love making lists.
There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.
The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live lists.
Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.
We will never finish everything on our to-do lists. It's not possible, and that is life! — © Susan L. Taylor
We will never finish everything on our to-do lists. It's not possible, and that is life!
I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.
Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
I agree, and a lot of people even within my own party want to give certain rights to people on watch lists and no- fly lists.
It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.
If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.
Lists are a form of power.
Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. — © H. Allen Smith
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel.
My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.
I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that.
I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.
I'm obsessed with making lists.
Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.
I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.
Our supportfor assault weapons ban is very broad...I think we've got all the police, we have all the mayors virtually - the conference of mayors, mayors against guns. We have medical experts, we have virtually dozens of religious organizations of every creed supporting us. We have just lists and lists.
I think we're on too many government watch lists. We'd better let this one go.
I believe we all have lists of shame. Long lists. We live with our constellation of shames quite privately. But they weigh us down. I wish I could abracadabra away shame. This is such a waste of our small time on earth. Our bodies are often the focus of shame. The shame of the body changing. Of the sexual body. Of the aging body. Not being able to do what you once could do. Even just looking at your skin as you age, the texture, the wrinkle, the sag, and somehow feeling ashamed and responsible for its changes.
I'm basically a mom who loves vision boards, dream lists, and 'The Secret.'
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