Geoff Mulgan Quotes
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.
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The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
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Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute.
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Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.
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Only a dad with a tired face,Coming home from the daily race,Bringing little of gold or fameTo show how well he has played the game;But glad in his heart that his own rejoiceTo see him come and to hear his voice.
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I cannot say where you are. Unreachableby prayer, even if poems are prayers. Unseeablein the air, even if souls are stars.
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With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.
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Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.
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Baseball guys tend to flock towards steaks.
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I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.
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Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.
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Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.
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The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.
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The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good.
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Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
