Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

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

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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

• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Life
  • God
  • Change

• I like kind of natural, woodsy earth tones. I like patchouli. I like tobacco. I like sandalwood. I like tree resin. I'm not a huge fan of citrus - I like things that are kind of moodier and... more deeper base notes.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Earth
  • Tree

• You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Revolution

• An important purpose for mortality is to help us learn to recognize and to choose the positive even though the negative more fully surrounds us. We make this choice consciously or unconsciously in every moment of the day, and these millions of tiny choices create the foundation of our identity. We are what we think. We are what we say, what we do, what we fill our lives with. Ultimately, every being creates himself by these countless, crucial choices.

  

  Betty Eadie
  • Identity
  • Create
  • Choose

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

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Practice