Charles Eisenstein Quotes

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

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• As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future.  And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you've been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Up
  • Together
  • High

• What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Important
  • Acting
  • Actors

• There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Body
  • Mountain

• Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Forget
  • Umbrellas

• Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Pessimism
  • Formation
  • Renounce

• There is much less drinking now than there was before 1927, because I quit drinking on May 24, 1927.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Drinking
  • Now
  • Quit

• Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Fantasy
  • Documentaries
  • Hyper

• I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Intention
  • Mouths
  • Tricks

• The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

  

  Alberto Aguilera Valadez
  • Artist
  • Sing
  • Count

• He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Value
  • Greater
  • Robbed

• Man, the creator of machines, is greater than the means of production. Man did not emerge from the process of evolution with the hammer, but with a distinctive brain. The human brain, itself a kind of “means of production” is more powerful than the most powerful machine.

  

  M. N. Roy
  • Man
  • Brain
  • Means

• All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.

  

  David Cobley
  • People
  • Interest
  • Greater

• Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries.

  

  William George Jordan
  • Growth
  • Philosophy
  • Generations

• We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Greater