Diane Ackerman Quotes

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

Diane Ackerman

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• The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Play
  • First

• I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Artist
  • More
  • Hip Hop

• Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Dreamer

• I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Constitution

• I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Talent
  • Genius

• Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Yoga

• The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Enemy
  • Lies
  • Compassion

• If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Silence
  • Ignorance
  • Enlightenment

• I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Work
  • Live
  • Single

• A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Perception

• I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I think it was my first time realizing that there was something besides popcorn movies.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Think

• Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Profound
  • Blindness
  • Laughs

• And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Action

• Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

  

  William James
  • Science
  • Mean
  • Creativity

• This world is full of mirage, illusion, sleight of hand. So much seems transitory and superficial. When we put aside the masks, pretense, crowd-sourced likes and dislikes, we yearn for more than fleeting veneer, ephemeral connection, or the pursuit of worldly self-interest.

  

  Gerrit W. Gong
  • World
  • Interest
  • Illusion

• It covers a wide range. I had a lot of fun doing it.

  

  Lisa Kelly Celtic Woman
  • Fun
  • Range

• The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Knowing
  • Sanity