Alberto Villoldo Quotes

The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.

Alberto Villoldo

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• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Morning
  • Distance
  • View

• My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fans

• I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Great
  • Think
  • Hand

• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Well
  • Snake
  • Worm

• While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Reporter
  • Marketers

• I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Love
  • Power
  • City

• I don't believe in God.

  

  Gail Porter
  • God
  • Believe

• These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • People
  • Being
  • Stadium

• For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • School
  • High
  • Death

• With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • You
  • Hair
  • See

• There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Why
  • Change
  • Decision

• Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• Like all boys my age, I was an idiot when it came to women.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Women
  • Age

• The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Reality

• I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

  

  Jemima Kirke
  • People
  • Good

• Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature.

  

  Nancy Chodorow
  • Relationship
  • Alone
  • Independence

• I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • World
  • Happy
  • Performance

• The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • War
  • Support
  • Struggle

• In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.

  

  John Frusciante
  • People
  • Music
  • Energy

• The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.

  

  Alberto Villoldo
  • Search
  • Meaning
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