"All of us are feeling scattered and distracted……" — Pico Iyer
"All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while."
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100 Quotes by Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer has 100 quotes on this site.
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Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
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We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall…
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it…
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Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is…
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and…
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Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
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Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's…
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Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
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None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could…
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Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are…
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Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
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One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
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More Accelerate Quotes
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one of 144 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive…
— Gerry Adams
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Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet…
— Nolan Bushnell
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries,…
— Margaret Chan
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Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars…
— Jeff Sessions
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The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate…
— Al Gore
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If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than…
— Rajiv Shah
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Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind…
— Joel Osteen
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In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that…
— Paul Polman
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So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the…
— Thomas Dolby
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Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because…
— Nicolas Roeg
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Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive…
— John F. Kennedy
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