Darryl Pinckney Quotes

The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.

Darryl Pinckney

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Time
  • You
  • Routine

• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Pretty
  • Kind
  • Play

• I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Organization
  • Fans
  • Loved

• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Want
  • Building
  • Welfare

• In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Done
  • Power
  • Bad

• Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Simple
  • Ending

• I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Love
  • Funny

• I have the necessary lack of tact.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Necessary
  • Lack
  • Tact

• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur
  • Finding

• Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Dream
  • New
  • Really

• He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Family
  • Order
  • Public

• Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • You
  • Reflect

• This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

  

  John Van Hamersveld
  • People
  • Different
  • Future

• Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

  

  David Sedaris
  • Boy

• My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They helped us stay on track for what we wanted to do.

  

  Big Money
  • Sacrifice
  • Teach
  • Track

• The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night