Diane Ackerman Quotes

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

Diane Ackerman

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• If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Truth
  • You
  • Paint

• If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Long
  • Night
  • Relationship

• I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Different
  • Always
  • Looking

• I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Student

• I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Up
  • Control
  • Confidence

• What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

  

  Parker Posey
  • You
  • Know
  • Personality

• When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Everything
  • Step
  • Ring

• We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Need
  • Networks
  • Download

• The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Good
  • Society
  • Economy

• Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • True
  • Age

• When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Father

• I considered acting an opportunity to express emotions-and I took advantage of every opportunity l got. It took me a long time to discover that restraint can be admirable. Restraint, however, does not mean lack of emotion. The thing that irks me is lack of emotion trying to pass for restraint. Lack of emotion is pathological; restraint is civilized.

  

  Leonard Nimoy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • School
  • Law
  • College

• I want to make good, fun films, not necessarily experimental ones.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Good
  • Fun

• Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the international arena.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Trust
  • Leadership

• My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Gold
  • Boss

• How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Power
  • Hope

• I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Soul

• I think diversity and having women and people of color in key positions is really important.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Important
  • Brain
  • Emotion