Charles Eisenstein Quotes

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

Charles Eisenstein

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• The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Truth
  • Sarcastic

• Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Story
  • Inside

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.

  

  La India
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.

  

  Pat Mitchell
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • History
  • Thought

• Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Creative

• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • World
  • City

• I have no great message to the world.

  

  Orson Welles
  • World
  • Great
  • Message

• If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Soul
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Soul
  • Really

• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Action
  • Contemplation

• Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Feel
  • Better

• The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • World
  • Good
  • House

• I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • World
  • Real
  • School

• When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Strong
  • Opinion
  • Ego

• I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, 'Ooh, 'Downton' started this week.' You completely forget it's staggered across the world.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • World
  • Past
  • Week

• Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Power
  • Soul

• From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • House

• Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.

  

  Common
  • Power
  • Fun
  • Words

• I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Mother
  • Father

• We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • World
  • Soul
  • Ego