William Irwin Thompson Quotes
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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I don't like to look typical.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.
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We're not the cause, we're the effect.
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.
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I'm still a big kid - I make mistakes all time.
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Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
