Joko Beck Quotes

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

Joko Beck

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• I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kind

• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy

• I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Seriously
  • Liberal
  • Biased

• I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Poetry

• Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Character
  • Story
  • Brand

• It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Culture

• In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Evil
  • Eye
  • New

• If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Bad
  • You
  • Differences

• I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Character
  • Bad

• 'Do you know a cure for me?' 'Why yes,' he said, 'I know a cure for everything. Salt water.' 'Salt water?' I asked him. 'Yes,' he said, 'in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.'

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Why
  • Water
  • Sea

• The whole business is a gamble. There's no real stability, you're kind of just floating around like a feather your whole life.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Life
  • Real
  • Business

• Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you don't have a chance.

  

  Alex Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Success

• No creature loves an empty space;Their bodies measure out their place.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Space

• I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Time
  • Live

• It is obvious, in retrospect, to lean on those who love us most. With depression, in part because of the shame attached to it, it's harder to be honest.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Depression

• The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • People

• Even as a kid - do all kids think about this? I hope they don’t, I hope my kids don’t think about this - I was always thinking about, "Well, what are we doing? What is this all about?"

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Hope

• Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymore. When friends ask me how my week was or how I'm doing, I think back on it, and I've just been by myself. Like, I'm just a sketch.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Writing
  • Friends

• It is too early to assess the policies of the new German government. I can only say that the crisis has shown that the monetary union is incomplete and that the weaknesses need to be remedied. Germany helps the euro best by further strengthening its competitiveness and promoting growth.

  

  Mario Draghi
  • Growth
  • German

• When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

  

  Chi Chi Rodriguez
  • Wife
  • Husband

• We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

  

  Joko Beck