Jeff Kober Quotes
Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
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It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.
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When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.
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To meditate an injury is to commit one.
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Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.
