Dan Millman Quotes

You will be free of the world's turbulence as soon as you stop taking your thoughts so seriously.

Dan Millman

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• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Learn
  • Doing

• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • Know
  • Stop
  • Voice

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • Today
  • Mistake

• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Age
  • Free
  • Me

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Down
  • Foot

• When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • World
  • Rest

• A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Hero
  • Heroic

• Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Men
  • Stop
  • Dogs

• It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Lying

• I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Good
  • Free

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • Think
  • Woman

• I think New Yorkers are some of the friendliest people in the world, but it just comes out in a different way. In a way where they're swearing at you.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.

  

  Alvin Langdon Coburn
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Photography

• I do notice a lot of people who want to shock to get laughs. It's such a tricky thing; you don't want to make rules about it. There's nobody more hilarious than Dave Attell, and he'd break every rule you set up. But he's funny.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• I think to look in the future, to plan another one, it's not realistic right now. But I don't close any doors. I'm very open for what comes up. At the moment, we are so happy with this one. I really hope people will like it as much as we do.

  

  Agnetha Fältskog
  • People
  • Up
  • Happy

• I haven't knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work.

  

  Little Simz
  • Work
  • Perseverance

• You will be free of the world's turbulence as soon as you stop taking your thoughts so seriously.

  

  Dan Millman
  • World
  • Free
  • Stop