David Hawkins Quotes

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

David Hawkins

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• Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Day

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Occupation
  • Siege

• Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • American
  • Car

• In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • World
  • She
  • City

• It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Always
  • Positive
  • Possible

• I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Independence
  • Compromise

• My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Why
  • Father

• I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Work
  • Great
  • Switzerland

• ...The reality is otherwise. Vicente Fox & friends are far closer than all but a few realize to making inevitable a North American Union where American sovereignty is dissipated and the republic is no more.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Friends
  • American
  • Reality

• Ita res accendent lumina rebus.

  

  Lucretius

• One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Ego

• II n'y a que les pauvres gens qui payent comptant. Ce n'est pas par vertu; c'est parce qu'on ne leur fait pas crédit.

  

  Anatole France

• I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Justice

• People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

  

  James Patterson
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• Not many know that I'm a mountaineer, and my love for adventure will never die.

  

  Divyanka Tripathi
  • Die
  • Adventure

• Comedy prepared me for drama. There are a couple techniques you can think of. One of my acting teachers said that comedy is like ping-pong, and drama is tennis. You take things a bit slower, so you do get to breathe more and take some more time.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Time
  • Comedy
  • Couple

• Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'

  

  Jennifer Damiano
  • World
  • Night
  • Control

• Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Art
  • Understanding

• Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Believe
  • Real

• Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Sleep

• We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

  

  David Hawkins
  • Understanding
  • Achieve
  • Cross