Gary Zukav Quotes
The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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And thou wert lovely to the last,Extinguish'd, not decay'd;As stars that shoot along the skyShine brightest as they fall from high.
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The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
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It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.
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Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.
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The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.
