Eric Maisel Quotes
The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
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The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
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I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?
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Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.
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Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
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Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.
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We are all so preoccupied with ourselves. How can I get happy, how can I find the job I love, how can I become a millionaire, how can lose weight. Yet, the reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things.
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The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.
