David Abram Quotes

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

David Abram

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• Humans
• Tongue
• Nourishment

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• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Everything
  • Build
  • Cinema

• We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • World
  • Why
  • War

• When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Work
  • Small

• Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Want
  • Dating

• You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Yourself

• I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Kind
  • Understanding
  • Yourself

• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Solutions

• If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Remember
  • High
  • Want

• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Changes

• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Humility

• My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Kids
  • Death
  • Dad

• Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • May
  • Party

• If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Sports

• I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Up
  • Always
  • Beer

• You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • America
  • History

• If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Best
  • Politics
  • Go

• I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Friends
  • Humor
  • Depression

• I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we'd initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Different
  • Space

• I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Happy
  • Death
  • Lost

• I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Relationship

• Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

  

  David Abram
  • Relationship
  • Humans
  • Tongue