Alan Bock Quotes

Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.

Alan Bock

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• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • History
  • Culture
  • Debate

• I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• You basically only discover a new thing once.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • You
  • New
  • Once

• Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Art
  • Together
  • Years

• I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Relationship
  • United States

• I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • True
  • Doing

• We're all equal before a wave.

  

  Laird Hamilton

• But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • War
  • Nature

• I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Girl
  • French

• No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Matter
  • Sides
  • Slice

• When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P. Roach there's more groove. I like doing those slower big fills, but I also like injecting some of that punk rock urgency. But I definitely need to mix it up, because if I was playing all fast fills all the time, it just wouldn't work.

  

  Tony Palermo Papa Roach
  • Playing
  • Joined
  • Groove

• Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Accepting
  • Paper
  • Refuse

• The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Business
  • Change
  • Day

• Politicians are scrutinized for what they have done wrong, but rarely for what they have not done to improve the situation of the people they are.

  

  Edith Hall
  • Situation
  • Politicians
  • Improve

• Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.

  

  Alan Bock
  • Paper
  • Forests
  • Hemp