Satish Kumar Quotes

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

Satish Kumar

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• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

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• One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.

  

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• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

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• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

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• Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

  

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• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

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• I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

  

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• Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

  

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• Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.

  

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• It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

  

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• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

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• ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

  

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• Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That's the antithesis of the artist mentality.

  

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• What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.

  

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• When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.

  

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• The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

  

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• It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.

  

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• The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame

  

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• Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.

  

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• I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.

  

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• We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Moments
  • Attitude
  • Sacred