Diane Ackerman Quotes

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

Diane Ackerman

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• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Never
  • Consciousness

• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Community
  • Peace

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Success
  • Benefits
  • U.S.

• Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Gossip
  • Regrets
  • Bonding

• You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I enjoy seeing new places.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • Seeing

• I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Organization

• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Left
  • August
  • Stayed

• Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Play
  • Wife
  • Queen

• It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Reality
  • Stop
  • Problem

• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

  

  Sam Neill
  • Enjoy
  • Cold
  • Choice

• I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Society
  • Know
  • Short

• When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Movie

• We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Working
  • Example
  • Lead

• I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Proud
  • Sexuality

• Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Desire
  • Talk

• 'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Small
  • Mean
  • Talk

• Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Act

• I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Way
  • Born
  • Raised

• Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • Free
  • Day

• Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Mystery
  • Talk
  • Balm