Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
Quotes to Explore
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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Excellence always sells.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food.
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My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.
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Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
