Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Herbie Hancock

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Should
  • Entertainment
  • Union

• I live for the text. It's my job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Job
  • Text

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental

• My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• My Emmy is in my china closet. People don't really look at it, though.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • People
  • Look
  • China

• My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Born

• Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Heart
  • Weird
  • Sad

• There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Potential
  • Optimism

• It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Age

• I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Travel

• The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• A man can preach no better than he prays.

  

  Charles Stanley

• We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

  

  Bob McDonnell
  • Why
  • America
  • Lost

• What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

  

  Ben Nelson
  • May
  • American
  • America

• I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl

• Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Science
  • Fall
  • Practice

• I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Power
  • Very
  • Vocation

• You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Control

• I've lived in Shepherd's Bush for five years with my friend Georgia in a cosy, cluttered flat.

  

  Cressida Bonas
  • Friend

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Practice