Cold Cave (Wesley Eisold) Quotes
I don't know why people would be interested in what I do. Maybe they feel how I feel. Maybe it's because we're all missing something, and I just happen to wear that on my sleeve.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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Reality is a sliding door.
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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
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I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect.
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Some people kind of are afraid of me.
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I like quality over quantity.
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It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
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More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
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Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
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If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.
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I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!
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Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.
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I have started or run several companies and spent time with dozens of entrepreneurs over the years. Virtually none of them, in my experience, made meaningful personnel or resource-allocation decisions based on incentives or policies.
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I don't know why people would be interested in what I do. Maybe they feel how I feel. Maybe it's because we're all missing something, and I just happen to wear that on my sleeve.
