Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I relished the sweet sense of keeping a unique secret in my mind - a wonderful magical universe that I could go… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century,… — Martin A. Siegel Copy Share Image
My life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way by starting the school-prayer case. But… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
And it soon became obvious to me that I had to process and keep my relationship with my ex-wife separate from that… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one… — Lance Secretan Copy Share Image
There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
In my life I have had to work through problems of stigmatization and prejudice. When I discovered the power of the arts… — Reza Abdoh Copy Share Image
Work with yourself. Work. If you have a partner, so much the better. Speak. Use whatever process is appropriate. Know that this… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion,… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation… — Tim Brown Copy Share Image
I remember my parents showing me films that I was too young to see, like 'The Graduate,' 'Silkwood,' and 'Anchorman,' which I… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Cookie dropped her purse and tried to catch it midair. In the process, she knocked over a vase. When she lunged for… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The next four years, though, you still have to abide by the oversight process that is there to prevent this kind of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience.… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
All my other movies have the same process. Same approach. Same amount of changes. Everything. Things being made up on the fly.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Suzanna Collins was very supportive, but we very much wanted her blessing on casting. In production, she visited us once, but she… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image