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

• 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

• '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

• Your love is like bad medicine

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Bad

• But when they have realized that it society rejects them forever, they themselves assume the ostracism of which they are victims so as not to leave the initiative to their oppressors

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Society
  • Forever

• The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Purpose
  • Facts
  • Fiction

• From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer.

  

  Caryl Phillips
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Reading

• I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • People
  • War
  • Pain

• ,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Friends
  • Girl

• But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Stuff
  • Kludge

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

  

  John Eccles