Danah Zohar Quotes

[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

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• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Best
  • Force

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Future
  • Day
  • Balance

• Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Great
  • Look
  • Traditions

• I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Pressure

• 'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Summer
  • Kid
  • Point

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Help
  • Thought
  • Movies

• A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • People
  • Up
  • Wake Up

• My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Education

• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Try
  • Down
  • Dumb

• Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Business
  • Day
  • Sometimes

• There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Society
  • Moving

• To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is justly pronounced by Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• A treeCannot growIn its parents’ shadows.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Parents

• It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Practice

• I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Great
  • Money

• You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • Up
  • School
  • Car

• Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Focus
  • Listen
  • Saying

• I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.

  

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky
  • Mean
  • Danger
  • Islam

• [I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

  

  Danah Zohar
  • Universe
  • Things
  • Happen