John Bradshaw Quotes

Shame is the root of all addictions.

John Bradshaw

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• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stars
  • New
  • India

• The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Work
  • First
  • Enthusiastic

• Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Religious

• The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Being

• We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • People

• For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Reading

• The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Interesting
  • Sometimes
  • Journey

• If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Ifs
  • Dinner
  • Please

• When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Experience
  • Fear
  • inspirational

• At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.

  

  George Clooney
  • Care
  • Positive
  • Helping

• The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Rational
  • Irrational

• Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Rule
  • Human Knowledge
  • Human Power

• I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Speak

• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

  

  William Blake
  • Shame
  • Pictures
  • Talents

• God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Die
  • Creatures

• How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Feels

• My own feeling is that he was a shyster and that he would become anything to get his way. Like, if he met you, he would be preaching papal supremacy.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Way
  • Feeling
  • Shyster

• Shame is the root of all addictions.

  

  John Bradshaw
  • Shame
  • Root
  • Addictions