Brian Swimme Quotes

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

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• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Better
  • motivation

• When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • I Can
  • Hear

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Time
  • Think
  • Me

• I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • House
  • Week
  • Down

• It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Believe
  • You

• We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Running
  • Traditional
  • Oracle

• You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Love
  • Think
  • Person

• The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Love
  • Home
  • Food

• When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Start

• Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Essence
  • Spirituality
  • Month

• I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Death
  • Just
  • Yes

• The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • Will
  • Essence

• The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Evidence
  • Early

• I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • May
  • Never
  • Anything

• If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Home
  • Want
  • Relax

• I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Help
  • Think
  • Doing

• 'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Done

• Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.

  

  Cloris Leachman
  • Long
  • Why
  • Kid

• The truth is, I was D.J.-ing on my college radio station in 1987, and I was called 'Mad Marj.'

  

  Marjorie Gubelmann
  • Truth
  • College
  • Mad

• When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Work
  • Real
  • School

• We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Men

• All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

  

  Brian Swimme
  • Work
  • Professions
  • Human World