James Hillman Quotes

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

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• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Flowers
  • Hundred
  • Bloom

• Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kings

• The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Always
  • System
  • Driven

• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Nobody
  • Some
  • Manufacturing

• Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Day
  • Single

• Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Future

• I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Movies

• It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • American
  • Dream
  • Myself

• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Money
  • Art
  • Forgive

• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Emotions
  • Hollywood

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Sleeping
  • Trait

• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Cancer
  • Jealousy
  • Mental

• If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Heart

• In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

  

  John Oliver

• If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Creative Way

• We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

  

  James Hillman
  • World
  • Work