Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Herbie Hancock

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• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Health
  • Always
  • Poor

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Will

• People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Fear
  • Value

• I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Mind
  • College

• Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Up
  • Running
  • Question

• Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Book
  • Happy
  • College

• There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Think
  • Military
  • Fiction

• When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Mother
  • Deep
  • Electricity

• Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Good
  • Worst
  • Good Taste

• I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Rhythm

• That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Same
  • Role
  • Stuck

• Now and then, there's a fool such as I.

  

  Hank Snow
  • Fool
  • Now
  • Then

• With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Change
  • Universe
  • Century

• I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children…

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Children

• Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • People
  • Party
  • Risk

• The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Long
  • Country
  • Change

• Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Challenges
  • Buddhism
  • Humanness