We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness, when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life.
[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets.
What scares me is how easily it happened.
From Ennio [Morricone] I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.
The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
I live in the present moment and easily release all past pain.
Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.
You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.
Florida is kind of notorious. But also because it's a rich place. Phonetically, narratively, historically. I wanted to know Florida better and I could easily find stories. My relationship with Florida is fraught because I didn't want to be living there always, but then after I left I really missed it.
They benefit from all these people, "I just don't like the fighting. Could you stop the shouting? All I want to do is just get along. " They're easily able to bulldoze large groups of people into laying down and letting it happen in the hope that this will be peace, in the hope that there will be no confrontations, in the hope that the shouting will stop.
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
We forget very easily what gives us pain.