Leo Kottke Quotes

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

Leo Kottke

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• From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Purpose
  • Perspective

• It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • See
  • I Can
  • Blind

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Lies

• I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Fun
  • Thought
  • Innovation

• I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Think
  • Cameras
  • Certainly

• Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Real
  • Done
  • Movie

• There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • May
  • Doubt
  • Child

• I've been on stage since I was eight.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Stage
  • Been
  • Since

• A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Family
  • Help
  • Man

• The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Idea
  • Something
  • Boring

• I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Running
  • Thought
  • Process

• 'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Laugh

• Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Life
  • World
  • Make A Difference

• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Action
  • Religious
  • Look

• If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Real
  • Fighting

• I don't go to celebrity parties a lot. I don't really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people... it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift's birthday party; then it's amazing.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Party
  • Amazing

• And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Focus
  • Opinion
  • Waiting

• The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

  

  Lorin Maazel
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Relationship

• Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.

  

  Janine Shepherd
  • Life
  • Dream

• I don't think I was a good comedian.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Good

• Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • Music
  • Friend

• I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

  

  Leo Kottke