Famous Quotes & Sayings

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Jane Wagner

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Eckhart Tolle

A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.

Eckhart Tolle

Become conscious of being conscious.

Eckhart Tolle

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

Eckhart Tolle

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Eckhart Tolle

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Eckhart Tolle

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

Clint Eastwood

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

William Shakespeare

He was not so much brain as earwax

Simone Weil

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

Guy Kawasaki

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

Fritz Sauckel

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

Henry David Thoreau

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved

Joseph Stiglitz

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

Chris Corrigan

I don't think any progress has been made on that front.

Rob Kues

She was a work in progress for most of the season. Now we have her right where we want her to be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Freeman Dyson

The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That's how it makes progress.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Bertrand Russell

Change is one thing, progress is another.