Jane Hirshfield Quotes

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

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• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Long
  • Choice
  • Drink

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Question
  • Child
  • Silent

• In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Courage
  • Leadership
  • South

• Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Power
  • Clean

• Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Better

• I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Silly

• Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Political
  • Consequences

• For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Better
  • Short

• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Information
  • Profound
  • Meaning

• We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Why
  • Try
  • Learned

• So many people look up to Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss in 'The Hunger Games.' For them to look up to Rey and what she represents would be fantastic. She's a wonderful character... The reason I love her so much is she does all the fun stuff. She fights, runs and protects herself and has an incredible emotional story.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Country
  • Never
  • News

• The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • People
  • Love
  • Boy

• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • New
  • Generation
  • Peaceful

• Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• I put up some great numbers.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Numbers

• The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

  

  Geoffrey West
  • Science
  • Powerful

• We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • People
  • Men
  • Happy

• “The experience of defeat, or more particularly the manner in which a leader reacts to it, is an essential part of what makes a winner.”

  

  Alex Ferguson
  • Experience
  • Defeat
  • Winner

• There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Good

• My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

  

  Jane Hirshfield
  • Job
  • Experience