John Mackey Quotes

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

John Mackey

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I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that the baby gets. And my older brothers were getting into so much trouble that I was left in the middle, doing plays. I was up to no good, but my mother didn't know it!

John C. Reilly

GoodMotherChildBrotherBabyKnow

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

John Hutton

TravelAccountabilityDirectionNew

I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system.

Steven Hall

IdeasYouDownLostForgetWant

Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from physics to fish and wildlife management to human-rights advocacy.

Trevor Paglen

MusicPoetrySupportResearchWorld

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

Mona Simpson

IdentityPeopleThinkAlwaysDouble

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

Chelsea Handler

WomenRideMenPeopleMeWorld

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

Connor Jessup

LoveHistoryLawWorldPhilosophy

We can't continue to tax, borrow, and spend at the rates that we are, and it's just got to be stopped.

Chuck Fleischmann

TaxGotBorrowJustContinueSpend

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.

Bruce McCulloch

MusicMeThinkYouImportantSee

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Anne Stevenson

LifeFamilyPoetryBelieveRules

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.

Annabelle Selldorf

LookingOwnershipYouInformation

Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.

William Hurt

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