Pamela Druckerman Quotes

I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world.

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • Car
  • Drive

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Change
  • Best

• The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Things
  • Better

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Decision
  • Back

• I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Poverty
  • Social
  • Disaster

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Heart
  • Dreams
  • Texas

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Chinese

• The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

  

  Charles Simmons

• The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Time
  • Important
  • Food

• The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • World
  • Risk

• Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.

  

  Daniel H. Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • World