Chris Brogan Quotes

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

Chris Brogan

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• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Pain
  • Part
  • Who

• My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Therapy

• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  

  Karen O
  • Pain
  • End
  • Promise

• I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • World
  • Important
  • Pain

• I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Pain
  • Really
  • Highway

• I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Pain
  • Depression
  • Research

• People play with pain all the time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Time
  • Pain

• Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Words

• But you know, my mom having to go to the hospital seven times... like passed out because of pain... I wouldn't come home and sit with my family and be with my dad - I'd call someone up and... I'd go and get obliterated drunk and I'd go, like, on two-week benders.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• The very word 'sorrow' colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Pain

• So young when the pain had begun Now forever afraid of being loved.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Pain
  • Forever

• No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• The wind shrieks, the wind grieves;It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again;And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreamsAnd desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Pain
  • Wind

• Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

  

  James Bobin
  • Pain

• In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.

  

  Lily James
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Crying

• I've never written a character that wasn't burdened by years of pain and trauma. Let's face it: Most comic-book heroes have some serious baggage. Not Green Arrow. He's a healthy guy - imagine that? Carrying your hero around in your head, imagining the world through his eyes, is just a hoot.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • World
  • Character
  • Book

• After having a career in Spain for eight years, I went back to being anonymous again, having to prove myself to the industry and myself, to prove I was capable of acting in a different language. It was a good challenge, and I can't complain.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Good
  • Different
  • Career

• The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Listening
  • Politicians
  • Police Officers

• To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

  

  Chris Brogan
  • Pain
  • Injury
  • Therapy