James Redfield Quotes

Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.

James Redfield

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• We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Sound
  • Freak

• I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

  

  Verite
  • Girl
  • Dad
  • Band

• I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Believe
  • Movie

• I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Broken
  • Promise

• I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Live
  • Chicago
  • Kid

• I'm really tired of virtue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Tired
  • Virtue
  • Really

• In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Roots

• StockX's live marketplace will harness the Internet's natural ability to facilitate a better way to transact certain segments of ecommerce. We are going to bring the kind of trading platform and visibility to tangible products that financial and commodities markets have used for decades.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Live
  • Financial
  • Internet

• I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Here
  • Perform
  • Autographs

• I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Think
  • Man
  • Like

• I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Opportunity
  • Never
  • Romantic

• No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

  

  Sallust
  • Time
  • Man
  • Best

• I grew up in Madras and did my schooling at St. Bedes and college at Loyola.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • College
  • Madras

• The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Today

• ...with like-minded people one cannot discuss. With like-minded people one can only participate in a church service, and, as is widely known, I do not like church services.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • People
  • Church
  • Service

• The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.

  

  Alan Shepard

• Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Food
  • Running

• I follow my instincts. Maybe I'd be more successful in my business and my private life if I did things like everybody else. But I just feel like I'm different from everybody else.

  

  Brenda Russell
  • Life
  • Different
  • Business

• Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

  

  Thomas Ken
  • Father
  • Son
  • Blessing

• I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Believe
  • Experience

• I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.

  

  James Redfield