Joko Beck Quotes

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

Joko Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 27, 1917 - June 15, 2011

Topics

BlessingThinkTroubleUnderstand

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.

John Holdren

YourselfBalanceEnvironmentalYou

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Anais Nin

TravelForeverSeekUsSoulsSome

I don't think New Mexicans know how many people vote illegally.

Steve Pearce

PeopleThinkNewKnowVoteHow

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.

Tom Stoppard

JourneyTimeI AmReadingFeelKnow

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.

RuPaul

LoveSuccessExperienceCreativeEnd

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

Michael Leunig

RoadHeavenSenseHopesPaved

You know, I love the South.

Jon Bernthal

LoveYouKnowI LoveSouth

I am not a natural show-off. Some of the monster comedians are terrifyingly assured, and I don't have that, and that's held me back.

Dominic Holland

I AmMeBackMonsterComediansSome

I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.

Derek Cianfrance

BestMountainMeBookStoryThink

Sometimes the manager says one thing and does another thing!

Claudio Ranieri

SometimesManagerOne ThingSays

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Alice Walker

Wake UpUpRefuseCloneWake

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?

Timothy Morton

GenerationDesignEleganceThings

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