Daniel Quinn Quotes

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • Change
  • Band

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Value
  • Gold

• A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Family
  • Change
  • Places

• I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Done
  • Winning

• Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Change
  • Choice

• My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Love
  • Light
  • Change

• India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • India
  • Second

• I could do another tour, make a record that's very similar, do similar venues. Or I could make a different record, do different venues, and grow. It's exciting to take it to new places, but it's never been my intent to be the biggest thing in the world. That's not what my drive is. I want to make what I want to make, and make a living off it.

  

  Flume
  • World
  • Different
  • Want

• New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Everything can change, but Indian movies will not change much because we're so used to the dance and songs and everything. Even Americans are getting very attracted to all this.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Change
  • Dance
  • Movies

• At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World

• Zionist Israel's occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armaments, making it impossible for these newly independent Arab nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevate the living standard of their people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • Independent

• The experience I had seeing Star Wars for the first time was mind-blowing. Eleven is a great age to have your mind blown. I will never forget that feeling of seeing 'Long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away' fade out. It was the first time a movie made me believe in another world that way.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea Of this invention, this invented world, The inconceivable idea of the sun.You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it.Never suppose an inventing mind as source Of this idea nor for that mind compose A voluminous master folded in his fire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fire

• The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into any details, predicts that for every known particle in the world, there should be a partner particle, the so-called supersymmetric partner.

  

  Brian Greene
  • World
  • Partner

• When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Bad

• You have to capitalise on any success you have and keep doing what you do as well as you can. But how do you define success? In my book, it's to be playing those parts you saw your idols - Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Vanessa Redgrave - playing when they were the age you are now.

  

  Janet McTeer
  • Book
  • Age
  • Success

• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Live
  • Honor

• When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Summer
  • Champion

• If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

  

  Daniel Quinn
  • World
  • Change
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