Charles Eisenstein Quotes
There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.
Quotes to Explore
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.
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I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
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Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
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Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.
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These days, I'm always trying to have lots of touches, to be involved, and to play my football for 90 minutes.
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I'm always open to trying out new things.
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When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.
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It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.
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I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.
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Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
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War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.
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If everyone was the same, it would be boring as sh*t.
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I've always felt that my career was in wiser hands than mine. Whatever, in its good time, is supposed to happen will happen.
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There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.
