Al Seckel Quotes

I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

Al Seckel

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• Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Negative

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Black
  • Know

• As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Live
  • Way
  • Hate

• Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Sometimes
  • Care
  • Laugh

• It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • True
  • Help
  • Alone

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Time
  • Innovation

• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Worry

• I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Never
  • Research

• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Success
  • Action

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Process

• I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

  

  Doris Lessing

• Time flows away like the water in the river.

  

  Confucius
  • Time
  • River
  • Flows

• I learned that a stiff test for friendship is: “Would she be pleasant to have t.b. with?” Unfortunately, too many people, when you try separating them from their material possessions and any and all activity, turn out to be like cheap golf balls. You unwind and unwind and unwind but you never get to the pure rubber core because there isn’t any.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Friendship
  • Learned
  • Balls

• Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • She
  • Nation
  • Agriculture

• I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or "We're in a library for some reason!"

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Up
  • Band
  • Wall

• I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

  

  Al Seckel
  • Book
  • Thoughts
  • Wall