Ken Wilber Quotes

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

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• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Made

• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Work
  • Respect

• For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Space

• Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Today
  • Political
  • Politics

• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Confident

• Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Good
  • Family
  • Society

• I cook chicken for a living.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Living
  • Cook
  • Chicken

• I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Philosophy

• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Fragrance
  • Lemon
  • Lime

• When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Dead
  • Politician

• Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Poverty
  • Retirement

• It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Work
  • Comedy

• It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Great
  • Live
  • May

• Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Change

• Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Deep
  • Down
  • Very

• I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Been

• I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

  

  Aaron Watson
  • Years
  • Fans
  • Lifetime

• I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fashion

• Making Congress into a less crisis-driven institution starts with electing members of Congress who can take the long view.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • View
  • Congress
  • Members

• My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts

  

  Suzy Amis
  • Style
  • Growing Up
  • Jeans

• I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

  

  Ken Wilber