Charles Eisenstein Quotes

Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

Charles Eisenstein

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• I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Think

• Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Better
  • Especially
  • Spaces

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Worth
  • Strife
  • None

• In high school, we used to sign to each other during the game, signaling different plays and stuff like that. It was kind of fun. It was definitely unique.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • School
  • Fun

• All I ever wanted to do was stand-up. It kind of charges me and gives me a rush.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up

• Guys know how to read each other's signals. They know how to telegraph love for one another without throwing their arms around one another.

  

  Lynn Coady

• Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Music

• You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Comedy
  • Study
  • Personality

• I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee - I find I can get a lot done that way.

  

  Cliff Sloan
  • Up
  • Done
  • Coffee

• Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Different
  • Fear
  • Psychology

• I'm not involved on any social media; it's really not my style.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Style

• Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.

  

  Jennifer Damiano
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• Societal good comes first for me.

  

  Pawan Kalyan
  • Good

• I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

  

  Jessie J

• You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Good
  • Team

• Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.

  

  Marya Hornbacher
  • Men
  • Women

• We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.

  

  Frans de Waal

• Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Friends
  • Rich
  • Loved

• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • May
  • Bad
  • Hope

• Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

  

  Martin Chalfie

• Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Happiness
  • Result
  • Crisis

• If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.

  

  Michael Medved
  • Waiting
  • Television
  • Industry

• Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Intimacy
  • Consumption