Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

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• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Be Happy

• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Long
  • Business
  • Career

• I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

  

  Feist
  • Long
  • Year
  • Curious

• Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Hope
  • Down
  • Unknown

• It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • Care
  • Others
  • Take Care

• As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Kids

• Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Want
  • Looking

• Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Prayer
  • Ignorance
  • August

• New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Energy
  • City
  • Young

• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Society
  • Culture

• 革命不是請客吃飯，不是做文章，不是繪畫繡花，不能那樣雅致，那樣從容不迫，文質彬彬，那樣溫良恭儉讓。革命是暴動，是一個階級推翻一個階級的暴烈的行動。

  

  Mao Zedong

• Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder's equity – myself especially – are in a state of shocked disbelief.

  

  Alan Greenspan

• When I was young, I originally wanted to be a radio on-air personality. Once I realized I may not be fit for that - I was infatuated with hip-hop - that I still wanted to be a part and give back the community, so I decided to carve my own path and make my own lane.

  

  Karen Civil
  • May
  • Community
  • Air

• Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.

  

  James Comey
  • Work
  • Different
  • Lazy

• I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Character
  • Age

• Being a young actor, I remember missing out on summers, birthday parties, and school trips through high school because I was filming. There are so many things that you have to sacrifice and give up for it.

  

  Dylan Everett
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Women
  • Remember

• Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.

  

  Lahiri Mahasaya
  • World
  • God
  • Remember

• When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Remember
  • Conclusion