Richard Louv Quotes

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

Richard Louv

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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Language
  • Matter

• I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Listen
  • Radio
  • Too Much

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • English
  • Difficult
  • Criticism

• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Curiosity
  • Devotion
  • Less

• Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decision
  • Goal
  • Organization

• The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Night
  • Down
  • Inventory

• I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Enjoying

• I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Word

• The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Confidence

• When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • You
  • Control
  • Story

• As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Curiosity
  • Subjects
  • Surprised

• There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before - you've just got to try to think it all over again.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Clever

• The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life. Because if you were entitled to life, then the life would have to be quantified. How many years? Seventy? Sixty? Shakespeare was dead at fifty-two. Keats was dead at twenty-six. Thomas Chatterton at seventeen.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Life
  • Important

• ...without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Work
  • Long
  • Together

• When blood is placed under a microscope, it appears as a number of minute globules or discs, but when seen by the trained clairvoyant as it courses through the living body, blood is found to be a gas, a spiritual essence.

  

  Max Heindel
  • Spiritual

• MAGGIE: Did you have a good time? HILDA: The affair ran the usual course. Fever, boredom, trapped. MAGGIE: Hot, rinse, spin dry.

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • Time
  • Good

• I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Actress

• I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Up
  • Children

• Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Children
  • Born
  • Special

• In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Children
  • Fantasy
  • Privacy