Jim Harrison Quotes

I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

Jim Harrison

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Free

• I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Understand

• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Way
  • Acting
  • Very

• Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Way

• The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Truth
  • Potential
  • Truth Is

• Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Think
  • Game

• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • End
  • In The End

• School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Curious

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Man
  • Food
  • Water

• Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Laughter
  • Laugh
  • Knowing

• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • People
  • Real
  • Dad

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Sad

• What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Poor
  • Take

• Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • God

• True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.

  

  Lubna Olayan
  • True
  • Leadership

• Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Time
  • Choices
  • Look

• Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Time
  • Money

• I wept that all must die -'Yet Love,' I cried, 'doth live, and conquer death -'And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die -Hush! for the ages call'The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!'

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Time
  • Discipline