Charles Eisenstein Quotes
I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into a spiritual or meditative state that we fancy up by calling it mindfulness, but really it's an unhealthy detachment and a shrinking back from life. But culturally, it's much more common to be trapped in habits of reaction, whether on a systemic level or on a personal level. That's where the non-doing comes in, which is something that we don't really have room for. I think that it's something we need to embrace as part of the creative process.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater.
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I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
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However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.
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I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
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I lift pretty heavy for my body weight, and I don't do any of that girly stuff like cardio or any light weights. I go really heavy, and that intimidates some guys. I enjoy that.
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I wasn't ready to say, I can't play anymore. And I'm still not.
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Love! Beyond measure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
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It was nothing, just the normal thing to do at the time.
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I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
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I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.
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Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.
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I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.
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I think I've learned a lot working with actors as experienced as Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. They taught me that whatever happens during a take, you should just carry on. Don't ever stop until the director tells you to stop.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
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I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into a spiritual or meditative state that we fancy up by calling it mindfulness, but really it's an unhealthy detachment and a shrinking back from life. But culturally, it's much more common to be trapped in habits of reaction, whether on a systemic level or on a personal level. That's where the non-doing comes in, which is something that we don't really have room for. I think that it's something we need to embrace as part of the creative process.
