Charles Eisenstein Quotes
I think people become environmentalists through experiences of beauty and grief. There was that pond that you visited when you were a child, and there were frogs and turtles. You go back there and it's dead now. The forest you went to, now there are bulldozers, now it's a strip mall. These experiences of beauty followed by grief affect us more than learning that CO2 levels are now 400 parts per million.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.
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I have no message.
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The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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I don't do anything with my brows.
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When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.
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If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.
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When you're out on the road touring and touring and then making records, you're just constantly looking forward, constantly working. You don't really stop to look at where you are or where you've been.
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All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.
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There's a perpetual duel going on between the world of the spirit and the world of things. Although the one only has meaning in relation to the other.
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So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.
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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
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I think people become environmentalists through experiences of beauty and grief. There was that pond that you visited when you were a child, and there were frogs and turtles. You go back there and it's dead now. The forest you went to, now there are bulldozers, now it's a strip mall. These experiences of beauty followed by grief affect us more than learning that CO2 levels are now 400 parts per million.
