David Abram Quotes

What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.

David Abram

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• Magic
• Communication
• Finding
• Weaving

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• There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Story
  • Doing

• I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Different
  • Women
  • Nature

• Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Different
  • Law
  • Psychology

• Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Good
  • Writing

• The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Poetry
  • Magic
  • Seems

• I was at a party New Year's Eve, and - no lie - at least 10 different people came up to me. One guy was like, 'I lost 30 pounds because of you.' So people just coming up to me. I don't know these people - random people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bridge

• Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Change
  • Photography
  • Finding

• I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

  

  Earl King
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Always

• The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Science
  • Creativity

• He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Different
  • She
  • Sex

• The hard part (of communication) is hearing criticism so it can be easily given.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Communication
  • Criticism

• Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Different
  • Heart
  • War

• My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Different
  • Family
  • Culture

• There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • World
  • Different
  • Decision

• Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would be wasteful to have competing rail lines, AT&T said the same thing. But today, the size and scope of these monopolies is different.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Different
  • Today
  • Competition

• I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Argument

• Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Truth

• Since 2011, Groupon has lost $730 million, and Zynga has lost just over $1 billion. Twitter has been in business for 10 years and went public in 2013. Since then, the company has lost $2 billion.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Business
  • Lost

• Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • You
  • Media
  • Short

• For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when you're a kid just screaming your face off, you're processing anger; you're processing all the things that happened to you, whether it's mistrust or confusion, whether you've gone through abuse.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
  • Kids
  • Process
  • Faces

• What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.

  

  David Abram
  • Different
  • Magic
  • Communication