Colin Wilson Quotes

Humanism is only another name for spiritual laziness, or a vague half-creed adopted by men of science and logicians whose heads are too occupied with the world of mathematics and physics to worry about religious categories.

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• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Always
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• To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Up
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• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
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• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
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• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Time
  • Men
  • Live

• I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Great
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• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Job
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  • Elements

• People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • People
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  • Want

• Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hand

• All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • Audience

• Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Decision
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• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
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• An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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  • Oneself

• I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
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  • Done

• We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.

  

  Bailey White
  • Present

• You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Society

• I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Science
  • Reading
  • Boys

• I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Love
  • Wish

• Spelunking is dangerous enough without adding in anything that could be described with the word 'ravening'.

  

  Jim Butcher

• Humanism is only another name for spiritual laziness, or a vague half-creed adopted by men of science and logicians whose heads are too occupied with the world of mathematics and physics to worry about religious categories.

  

  Colin Wilson
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  • Science