Daniel Pinchbeck Quotes

I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.

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• People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Presence

• Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Live
  • City

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Thought
  • Envy

• There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Picture

• I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Why
  • Alone

• When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

  

  Nash Grier
  • People
  • Want
  • Pursue

• There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• Rich people march on Washington every day.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • People
  • Day
  • Rich

• It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • English
  • Class

• I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Rock
  • Player
  • Star

• Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

  

  Eric Butterworth
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Evil

• Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they didn't have Internet, they didn't have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn't get a hold of you.

  

  Edy Ganem
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Home

• I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don't take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. It's a gratitude list. It works.

  

  David Alan Basche
  • People
  • Home
  • Growing

• I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • People
  • Money
  • Hate

• In 'Seven Ancient Wonders,' Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I'm not going to preach to people and say, 'Guantanamo Bay, bad', but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way.

  

  Matthew Reilly
  • People
  • Bad
  • Team

• People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.

  

  Charlie Norwood
  • People
  • Power
  • Listening

• I strive to do my best every single time and I think that's something the skate community knows about me and appreciates.

  

  Mike Vallely Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Appreciate

• Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Kind
  • Moments
  • Language

• I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.

  

  Daniel Pinchbeck
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Destruction