#plain

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#demands #even #explain #instant #just

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#black #comedy #explain #first #had

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#against #allow #because #bit #commend

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#explain #i #i write #me #meditation

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#died #ever #god #gonna #him

People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are. ↗

— Michael Symon

#assume #case #chefs #complain #i

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#color #explain #object #perception #position

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#every #fool #guard #hour #jealous

If you ever, ever, ever want to complain about what's going on in the U.S., you should vote because then you have a right to. If you want to complain, you should vote. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#because #complain #ever #going #right

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy. ↗

— Alan Hansen

#better #complained #days #fantasy #george