Jane Hirshfield Quotes

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.

Jane Hirshfield

• Understanding
• Poetry
• Effort
• Path
• Transformation

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• All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Transform
  • Rural

• The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Period

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Getting Older

• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Love
  • Achieve
  • For Him

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.

  

  Zendaya
  • School
  • Parents
  • Helping

• Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Revolution

• Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Remember
  • Reality
  • Alone

• Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Way
  • Film
  • Person

• When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Science
  • Percent
  • Reliance

• Ricky Gervais is a genius.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Genius
  • Ricky

• I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • World
  • Long
  • Best

• There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Energy

• I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Writing
  • Best
  • Creative

• My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

  

  Ato Boldon
  • Up
  • Ego

• I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Path

• Make an effort to do the things that you enjoy instead of being lazy about it. Life is worth the hassle.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Lazy

• I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL.

  

  Peter Landesman

• There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • God
  • Live
  • May

• I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.

  

  Jane Hirshfield
  • Understanding
  • Poetry
  • Effort