Gardner Murphy Quotes
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of
bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its
relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the
cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a
thousandfold more precious.
Gardner Murphy
Quotes to Explore
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
Damien Chazelle
I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.
B. D. Wong
Happiness, in truth, may not be the fruit plucked by my action yet without action all fruit will die on the vine. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.
Og Mandino
History is the revelation of providence.
Lajos Kossuth
Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'
Robert Dwayne Womack
When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.
Ashton Kutcher
I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.
Kaya Scodelario
When I had a group of undergraduates in the room, I would say to them, 'How many of you want to run for office someday?' And almost every male hand in the room would go up. And very few of the young women.
Jeanne Shaheen
As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of
bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its
relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the
cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a
thousandfold more precious.
Gardner Murphy