Alan Lightman Quotes

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

Alan Lightman

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• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!

  

  Sam Smith
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Hair

• Often when I feel I am reaching a saturation point in my performances, I think of coming back to NSD and attending workshops.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Performances
  • Saturation
  • Workshops

• Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Bad
  • Cool
  • Reason

• Tenderness is a virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Tenderness

• If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Law
  • Focus

• I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Laundry

• Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Pretty
  • Powerful
  • Feel

• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Morality
  • States

• Usually when you have a sequel, the character always stays the same and that's true basically of 'Rocky III,' 'IV' and 'V.' He didn't really change.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Character
  • True
  • Change

• My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Dad
  • Vote
  • Mentor

• I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Day

• If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Life
  • Business
  • Man

• There is constant talk about the intermarriage crisis: who is a Jew and how we define a Jew. That doesn't go over well with young Jews trying to figure out whether they want to be a part of this thing or not.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Young

• I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • You
  • Film
  • Obligation

• Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Liberation of the seer is the result of the dissassociation of the seer and the seen.

  

  Patanjali

• Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.

  

  Marc Warren
  • Up
  • Home

• In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Child
  • Development

• Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ, and I'm expanding my brand," rather than thinking, "I'm part of this space over here, and in order for it to grow, you can't have it assimilated by this bigger bubble or corporate brand."

  

  M.I.A.
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Order

• We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

  

  Alan Lightman