James Hillman Quotes

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

James Hillman

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• At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Together
  • Science
  • Myself

• Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Racism

• Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Care
  • Body
  • Learn

• I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Professional

• Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Chance

• I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • First
  • Try

• I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Funny
  • Feel
  • Audience

• There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Think
  • Down

• Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Nature

• But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Think

• If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • God
  • Live
  • Blessed

• I've been using makeup since I was ten years old. I've learned a lot of do's and don'ts over the years. But one would definitely be that you should do your makeup for the occasion.

  

  Becky G
  • You
  • Years
  • Makeup

• I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Sister

• I think there's a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it's all going to end and we're mortal. I envy dogs. They don't know they're getting old! And they don't know it's towards the end. I mean, they never think, 'I used to get by on 16 hours of sleep a day. Now, if I don't get 19, I'm a wreck.'

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • End

• Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it'd be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Amazing
  • Care
  • Green

• If the refugees return to Israel – Israel will cease to exist.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

• One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Art
  • Nature

• Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Role
  • Mask
  • Flame

• Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Game
  • Wonder

• The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

  

  Bryan Magee
  • Important
  • History
  • Single

• What I feel like I'm doing is showing people what is humanly possible when someone commits their entire life to something.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • People
  • Life

• Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.

  

  David Meerman Scott
  • Competition
  • Leaders
  • Followers

• We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

  

  James Hillman