Stephen Levine Quotes

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

Stephen Levine

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• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Children
  • Family
  • Free

• It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Tried
  • Liking
  • I Tried

• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • California
  • Taxes

• Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Football
  • Loved

• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Nation

• I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wife

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Marriage
  • Never
  • Name

• Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Very
  • Everybody
  • Clean

• It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mistakes

• The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Everything

• I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon - anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Dream
  • Inspiration
  • Specific

• There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• Imagination comes of not having things.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Imagination

• We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets for local goods, protects our environment, and helps struggling families bridge the gap between hard times and a full dinner table.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Strong
  • Environment
  • Bridge

• To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Risk

• Euripides was wont to say, 'Silence is an answer to a wise man.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Wise
  • Silence

• I feel like, genre-wise, the walls are coming down in Nashville. There are so many writers who have moved to town from all walks of life. There's this immense respect for country, but there are pop songwriters, R&B. Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Country

• 'Look, Nelson. Maybe I haven't done everything right in my life. I know I haven't. But I haven't committed the greatest sin. I haven't laid down and died.'

  

  John Updike
  • Life
  • Done

• The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

  

  Stephen Levine
  • Life
  • Gift
  • Presence