Quotes on Everyday

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

In God’s great plan, every detail is important, even yours, even my humble little witness, even the hidden witness of those who live their faith with simplicity in everyday family relationships, work relationships, friendships. There are the saints of every day, the “hidden” saints, a sort of “middle class of holiness” to which we can all belong.

The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment.

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s frustrating for the people around me. I’m vaguely functional, but there’s always something slightly off.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.