Leonard Shlain Quotes
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.
Quotes to Explore
-
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
-
Incommensurables cannot be compared.
-
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
-
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
-
I don't know how people recognize me.
-
If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
-
I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
-
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
-
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
-
I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
-
I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
-
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
-
I love music.
-
I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
-
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
-
I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
-
If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
-
There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
-
You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
-
It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master.
-
I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
-
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.
