David Antin Quotes

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

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• The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Failure

• If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Money
  • Look
  • Roads

• Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Live
  • City
  • Same

• There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Easy
  • Internet

• When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Way
  • Minutes
  • Evaluation

• I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • World
  • Better
  • Doing

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Jokes

• You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Children
  • You
  • Learn

• The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Hand
  • Better
  • Determination

• The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • Problem
  • English

• I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Environment

• Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Man
  • Napoleon

• By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Culture

• I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Tired

• You never know, life is short but it’s wide

  

  Wendy Mass
  • Know
  • Short
  • Wide

• When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

  

  Victor Borge
  • She
  • Star
  • Appearance

• I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Reading

• My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

  

  David Antin
  • Thinking
  • Path