Ken Wilber Quotes

There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.

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• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Know
  • Simple

• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Done
  • Discipline
  • Talent

• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Different
  • Free
  • News

• Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Up
  • Running
  • Question

• I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I'm at home, that time and space is sacred. I do yoga every day.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Growth

• The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Time
  • World
  • Sun

• The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Organization
  • Room

• I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Healthy
  • Youth
  • Debate

• One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Important
  • You
  • Grass

• When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Everyone
  • Nuts
  • Be Prepared

• I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Great
  • Book
  • Brain

• I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Play
  • Prince
  • Cowboy

• Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Improvement

• Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.

  

  Gary Marcus
  • Worried
  • Unknowns
  • Knowns

• Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Wealth
  • Environmental
  • Rise

• There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Life
  • Grief
  • Sorrow

• There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.

  

  Ken Wilber