Brian Henson Quotes

And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.

Brian Henson

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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up
  • Done
  • May

• There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Better
  • Company

• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Philosophy
  • Only
  • Concrete

• To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Game
  • Company
  • Escape

• Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Religion
  • Search
  • Meaning

• Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Like
  • Company
  • Build

• What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Want
  • See

• People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Design
  • Company

• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Religion

• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Mind
  • Religion
  • Understand

• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Truth
  • Earth

• If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Company
  • Clarity

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Children
  • Company
  • Others

• I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Art
  • Really
  • Get

• The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Weird
  • Keep
  • Machine

• To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Flying
  • Feet
  • Chase

• I have to physically attracted to someone. But I can't just be with someone just because it's great sex. Because orgasms don't last long enough.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Great
  • Long
  • Sex

• You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Girl
  • Trouble

• And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Religion
  • Philosophy
  • Company