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

• I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Long
  • Day
  • Everyday

• 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

• In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, the welfare of mankind.… I wanted what the heads of the ecclesiastical and secular powers should do and want by virtue of their offices.

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • Time
  • Real

• 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

• I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • People

• I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Time

• During the time I didn't play for England, they were losing Test matches, and the Yorkshire committee were telling me that I should be batting for my country. Then, when I decided to make myself available to play for England again in 1977, and Yorkshire lost a couple of matches in my absence, they criticised me for not being there.

  

  Geoffrey Boycott
  • Time
  • Country
  • Lost

• I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.

  

  Emily Perkins
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Comedy

• 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