Charles Eisenstein Quotes

The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds.

Charles Eisenstein

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Seem

• I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Country
  • Think
  • Religious

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Up
  • America
  • Think

• You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
  • Pride

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • People
  • Experience
  • Power

• Forgotten is forgiven.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgotten

• I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

  

  Valerie June
  • Past
  • Inspired
  • Old

• I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Family

• As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Great
  • Business
  • Movie

• I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

  

  Emma Bell
  • Life
  • Deep

• As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

  

  Don Bluth
  • Job
  • Emotional
  • Journey

• Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Long
  • Transformation

• In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Life
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• I hate when people call me 'The Boz'.

  

  The Boz
  • People
  • Hate

• The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Up
  • Alone

• I don't think that anyone was trying to keep me from writing the first album. It's just when you're on 'American Idol' or a TV show like that, you wanna capitalize on that momentum, and you want to use that to your advantage, obviously, so the best way to do that is to get the music out as fast as possible. And there's no time to create, really.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I used to have lot of arguments with my mother due to a lot of bruises on my body for trying my hand at wrestling. I used to say, 'I am Rock,' and I would get slapped.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Hand

• The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.

  

  James Marsh
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Movie

• For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Free
  • Value

• The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Hopeful