Oliver Burkeman Quotes

Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

Oliver Burkeman

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• When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • You
  • Years

• I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Eyes
  • Presence
  • Venice

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Age
  • Beginning
  • Enlightenment

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Life
  • Younger

• It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Dad

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Time
  • Day

• When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Play
  • First
  • Guitar

• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Day
  • Back
  • Pattern

• What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Country
  • Hair

• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Food

• We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Thought

• I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Dream
  • Control
  • Scenes

• President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • War
  • Trump

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• It's absurd that you know more about your car than you know about your body.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Car

• I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

  

  Len Wein
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Myself

• I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Character

• Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

  

  Oliver Burkeman
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Positive