Brian Houston Quotes
What frames the tone of your life? How often do you stretch beyond your comfort zone to reach out to people whom you are in disagreement with? The ability to enjoy a bug, spacious, openhearted life is directly proportional to your ability to love everyone, especially those who are different from you.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
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The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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What frames the tone of your life? How often do you stretch beyond your comfort zone to reach out to people whom you are in disagreement with? The ability to enjoy a bug, spacious, openhearted life is directly proportional to your ability to love everyone, especially those who are different from you.
