Bernie Glassman Quotes
Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.
Quotes to Explore
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Artists need to express.
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The truth is, there are many types of businesses that require thousands of dollars to be invested during the startup period. However, there are also many different types of business models that you can run from the comfort of your own home without having to reach too deep into your wallet.
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
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The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.
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It was a nice change of pace to come to work, put on a nice suit and stay clean all day.
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To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.
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Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.
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Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.
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Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
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We tend to treat eating and diets as one size fits all. But the human body is very personalized.
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We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.
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Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.
