The Way The World Works Quotes

#1. What are the chances that you'd be there? It's funny sometimes the way the world works. Makes you think there's got to be a reason things turn out the way they do." -Louis

Michelle Schlicher

#2. I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. Because that's the way the world works, isn't it? You can work hard and be miserable, or do nothing and be happy.

Brian Katcher

#4. We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#5. people not onlynotice feature correlations, but they can deduce reasons for them based on their knowledge of the way the world works" (Medin and Wattenmaker 1987, 36).

Anonymous

#6. It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

Gilbert Arenas

#7. If you are dissatisfied with the way the world works, it is because your heart is prompting you to change it.

Jason Russell

#8. Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

Frederick Wiseman

#9. Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

Frank Stella

#10. Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

Paul Krugman

#11. This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.

Elizabeth Janeway

#12. There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

John Legend

#13. Everyone dies without understanding anything. Thats the way the world works, after all.

Yusuke Kishi

#14. Kepler and Newton represent a critical transition in human history, the discovery that fairly simple mathematical laws pervade all of Nature; that the same rules apply on Earth as in the skies; and that there is a resonance between the way we think and the way the world works.

Carl Sagan

#15. If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

Noam Chomsky

#16. People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.

Nikki Reed

#17. You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

Dave Winer

#18. I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#19. I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve.

Ray Dalio

#20. There's always another storm. It's the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.

Maria V. Snyder

#21. But if we don't figure out the way the world works and is, and if we don't live in harmony with it, we will be miserable and no better off than the dumb animals.

Bart D. Ehrman

#22. Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Dale Spender

#23. Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#24. In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.

Mike Wallace

#25. What was once considered impossible is now quite easily achieved. Kings and lords come and go and leave nothing but statues in a desert, while a couple of young men tinkering in a workshop change the way the world works.

Terry Pratchett

#26. Do you ever think about how weird it is that we run into each other all the time?" he asked, eyes unreadable
"No," I admitted. "Isn't that the way the world works? In a city of millions you'll always see the same person."
"But how often is it the person you most want to see?

Christina Lauren

#27. Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

Sarah Dessen

#28. This is how it works, she thought. When the world becomes something new, it seems always to have been that way.

Carolyn Turgeon

#29. God works in mysterious ways so if you let the world dictate the way God works, you will miss God working.

Jonah Books

#30. Everything is clear to me - outline, details, future, emotion. Not like the world, where everything is muddy and messed, and nothing ever works out the way you mean it to - no matter how skilful or how honourable you are, no matter how vile your enemy. When

Kelly Gardiner

#31. There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

Dallas Campbell

#32. Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

Randy Newman

#33. The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

Daniel Kahneman

#34. When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

Christopher Nolan

#35. What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

Chris Robinson

#36. If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.

Tad Williams

#37. The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works in a much more exploratory way. It is aware of all the possibilities at once and trying them out all the time. That is a hard thing to picture.

Neil Turok

#38. In the end there's never a sanctuary. You run until there's nowhere left to run to, and then you fight, and then you die, and then it's over. That's how the world works, and if there's any way to change that, I hope someone's eventually planning to let me know.

Seanan McGuire

#39. How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in.

Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you'll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That's the way our strange world works.

Richie Norton

#40. The only reason you need me at all, John, is because Magick actually works. If it were all just smoke and mirrors and stage magic, if the world worked the way religion or science says it works, then we wouldn't have Vampyres in the first place. I'd be out of a job.

Abramelin Keldor

#41. I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.

Tim Harford

#42. Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Bruce Jackson

#43. If you wish to have children, please do something for the world you will bring them into. That will make you someone who works for peace, in one way or another.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#44. The very concept of a loving personal creator was only ever a secondary invention, a grinning wicker man thrown together in antiquity and stood in place as a chimerical response to a world whose everyday works betray the fantasy in every possible way.

John Zande

#45. The unsupervised learning is the way most people will learn in the future. You have this model of how the world works in your head and you're refining it to predict what you think is going to happen in the future.

Mark Zuckerberg

#46. God works with the world as it is in order to bring it to where it can be. Prayer changes the way the world is, and therefore changes what the world can be. Prayer opens the world to its own transformation.

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki

#47. But I felt like I'd made a journey to the land of fairytales only to find out that the magical world was identical to the real one. Even in fairytales, the sun still burns, sand still works its way into your bikini bottoms, and the diner next door to your motel still scorches toast.

Holly Schindler

#48. Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

Amelie Mauresmo

#49. Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn't work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness.

Neil Gaiman

#50. I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

Jeffrey Jones

#51. To me, it is better to "guess" at how something works, experiment, fail, guess again, fail, and keep repeating that process over and over again until you either figure it out or you discover a multiplicity of other cool tricks along the way.

Trey Ratcliff

#52. I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

Jenny Hval

#53. Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

Ian MacKaye

#54. Well, they really didn't have to worry, because the way power politics works, the World Court can't do anything. Look, there's one country in the world at the moment which has refused to accept World Court decision-that's the United States. Is anybody going to do anything about it?

Noam Chomsky

#55. Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works.

Yoko Ono

#56. You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#57. So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising.

Saul Perlmutter

#58. We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#59. Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don't know why.

Scott Adams

#60. I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

Chris Tucker

#61. Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Romesh Gunesekera

#62. I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.

Bernard Beckett

#63. The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

Erich Fromm

#64. The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think

Gregory Bateson