Daniel O'Sullivan Quotes

The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this perpetual state of renewal. And the "contagious magic" is the blind belief that this is the case, and the reason we're careering towards ecological disaster.

Daniel O'Sullivan

• Earth
• Running
• Magic
• Belief

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• Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Complete
  • Supreme

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Me
  • Rock

• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Race

• I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Good
  • Different
  • Family

• I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Characters

• The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Reality

• There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Great
  • Kindness

• I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Time
  • Live
  • Experience

• It seems to me that a market exchange rate which is not artificially controlled by central banks enables one to balance the interests of different market players - exporters and importers, investors, borrowers, lenders.

  

  Elvira Nabiullina
  • Different
  • Balance

• A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.

  

  May-Britt Moser
  • Good
  • Focus
  • Excellence

• I think if you're talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all your roles, then you're fine, because you can't predict the rest. You also can't predict the audience's reaction.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Rest
  • Justice

• If you have time to be with a dog, and the dog is smart, you come to understand the dog, and the dog understands you. They're not hard to train. But they have to be smart, and you have to spend time with them. It's like coaching. I was a better coach when I had smart players.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Smart

• One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

  

  George R. R. Martin

• I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Time
  • Style

• There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Power
  • Past
  • Earth

• I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Together
  • Running
  • Angry

• The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Earth
  • Buried
  • Suffocating

• The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this perpetual state of renewal. And the "contagious magic" is the blind belief that this is the case, and the reason we're careering towards ecological disaster.

  

  Daniel O'Sullivan
  • Earth
  • Running
  • Magic