John Eccles Quotes

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

John Eccles

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• If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Live
  • Night
  • Stars

• I try to stay focused.

  

  OMI
  • Try
  • Focused
  • Stay Focused

• I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Music
  • Money
  • Business

• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Travel

• I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Inspired
  • Very
  • Tomboy

• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Design

• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Plans

• I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

  

  Questlove
  • Best
  • Write
  • Pressure

• I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Taken
  • Child
  • Liberty

• 'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Character
  • Play
  • Myself

• I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Great
  • Fans
  • Back

• Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

  

  Weegee
  • Film
  • Nothing
  • Village

• My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Mom

• The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Soul
  • Future
  • Follow

• In his idle hours, Heusler sometimes amused himself by trying to conceive of a crime a mortal man could commit that was more monstrous than making a goddess fall in love with him. He had never succeeded.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Trying
  • Fall
  • Goddess

• But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.

  

  William Johnson Cory
  • School
  • Habit
  • Arts

• I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Hot

• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Person
  • Language
  • Mouth

• Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.

  

  Bill Drayton
  • People
  • Happy
  • Society

• Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.

  

  Elaine A. Cannon
  • Change
  • Forget
  • Divine

• I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

  

  John Eccles