Eugene Kennedy Quotes

The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.

Eugene Kennedy

• Catholic
• Human Condition
• Spiritual Life
• Good Life
• Being Human

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• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Great
  • Tennis

• Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • People
  • May
  • Easy

• I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Always
  • Confident
  • Maybe

• A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Health
  • Care
  • Insurance

• Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Friends
  • Political
  • DJ

• I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Addiction
  • Immune

• When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

  

  Larry David
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • You

• The diamond scintillates less brilliantly when the fingers move rapidly than when they undulate and pivot. Glossy leaves throw off less light in a high wind than under the calm wavering of a breeze. Brusque movements of the eye cast a single gleam, and slow movements add a thousand others.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • High
  • Light
  • Single

• I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.

  

  Liang Wengen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Children

• Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Kids
  • Anonymous

• Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.

  

  Aleksey Igudesman
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Done

• I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Important
  • Help
  • Technology

• I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!

  

  Jessica Biel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Remember

• In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

  

  James Buchan
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• The long arc of history that recounts the Catholic Church's embrace of people of all faiths and none in providing health, education, and welfare in society is as incontestable as it is impressive.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Long
  • History

• The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Law
  • Church
  • Organization

• When you're asking someone for assistance, make it as easy as possible for them to say "no" to you. You don't want someone helping you who doesn't really want to.

  

  Raymond Arroyo
  • Helping
  • Asking
  • Assistance

• The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Catholic
  • Human Condition
  • Spiritual Life