"God is a freaking character, with enough foibles,……" — Walter Kirn
"God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?"
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51 Quotes by Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn has 51 quotes on this site.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but…
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The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at…
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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate…
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Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave…
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Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better…
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A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth..
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At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound…
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Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end…
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Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's…
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The market is the only critic that matters.
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The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.
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As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the…
— Stephen Covey
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If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
— Stephen Covey
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Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense,…
— Frantz Fanon
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to…
— Barry McCaffrey
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Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the…
— Antonio Damasio
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If we do not control our minds with our Buddha nature, do not practice seriously, are not honest to ourselves…
— Ching Hai
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Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.
— Virginia H. Pearce
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The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude…
— Rushworth Kidder
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We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by…
— Elise M. Boulding
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