Paul Hawken Quotes
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
Quotes to Explore
-
And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
-
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
-
I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
-
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
-
It's a very good historical book about history.
-
I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
-
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
-
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
-
Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
-
Luxury is a state of mind.
-
I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
-
I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
-
When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
-
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
-
My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
-
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
-
I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
-
I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.
-
This will be my 54th trip to Augusta. I got $20,000 for winning the Masters. Now I get $10,000 to go there and eat a free steak.
-
In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
-
The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all the other artists are doing. You need to be doing it also.' I didn't really have a clue what is was.
-
I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.'
-
I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.
-
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
