Charles Eisenstein Quotes

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

Charles Eisenstein

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• Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Technology
  • Government

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • House
  • Feel

• You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Experience
  • You
  • Personality

• How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • America

• It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Think
  • Know
  • Nonsense

• I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Life
  • Courage
  • New Things

• A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalkThe first song of his happiness, and the song wokeHis heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Joy

• Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• -vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Perfect
  • Wisdom
  • Equality

• The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.

  

  Lewis Carroll

• I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'

  

  Les Claypool
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I use only essential oils for perfumes.

  

  Jessica Capshaw

• It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.

  

  Janez Drnovsek
  • Support

• We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.

  

  David Amram
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• In 1956, the success of the Hammer films kick-started my career. That immediately gave me a name and a face to go with it. I will always be grateful to Hammer for that.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Career
  • Success

• I find my motivation from everyone who looks up to me and my teammates. From the little girls that look up to me and tell me they want to be like me when they grow up.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Up
  • motivation

• All the better; they do not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord if I did not dread scandal. But since they want it that way, I enter gladly on the path that is opened to me, with the consolation that my departure will be more innocent than was the exodus of the early Hebrews from Egypt.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Done
  • Path
  • Innocent

• What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

  

  Linda Vester
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Parents

• If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Power
  • Scare
  • Reservations

• I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Heart
  • Fall
  • Suspense

• When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Keep

• No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Fall
  • Grief
  • Loss