Charles Eisenstein Quotes
True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
Quotes to Explore
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.
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I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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It was smart on his part, but it still took guts. I kind of admire him for doing that.
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I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.
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Desensitization: helping patients become less reactive to certain emotions and sensations. But is this the correct goal? Maybe the issue is not desensitization but integration: putting the traumatic event into its proper place in the overall arc of one’s life.
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True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
