Etel Adnan Quotes

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• If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Interesting
  • Alone
  • Behavior

• You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Fashion

• Stay focused on the mission.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Mission
  • Stay
  • Stay Focused

• When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Power

• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Picture

• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Think

• I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Christmas

• Our silence is deafening and deadly.

  

  James Brown
  • Silence

• If everything was perfect, it would always be a person-first conversation, but whenever I have the opportunity, I lead with my personality. If they're looking and seeing the disability first or the chair first, I know that I have the ability to change that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Opportunity
  • Perfect
  • Personality

• For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Guy

• I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Bound

• To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • World
  • War
  • Eyes

• Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Mother
  • Philosophy
  • Leisure

• Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Injury
  • Sage

• If I don't create, I don't exist.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Create
  • Exist

• It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Demands
  • Activities

• Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.

  Etel Adnan
  • Exist
  • Beings
  • Colours