Joko Beck Quotes

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Joko Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeForwardEnlightenmentYouGoal

For too many years, politicians in Washington have been eager to pledge more hard-earned taxpayer dollars to help deal with the student debt load. But this doesn't sit right with the many Americans who take pride in making fiscally responsible choices and paying off their loans on time.

John Kline

TimeChoicesPrideHelpStudent

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

Michael Franti

WorkFamilyCommunityThinkHelp

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Tony Blair

ChangePoliticsPartyCountryCome

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

Mary J. Blige

YouKnowEverythingLot

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

Mike Simpson

ManagementBetterLongLandBattles

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

Michael Jordan

LifeTravelPeopleCollegeIdeas

I was born into a family of preachers.

David Soul

FamilyBornI Was BornPreachers

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

Bruce Jackson

WarMediaWayUsAboutTells

When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front of us are often the hardest to see: the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.

Apollo Robbins

DayLookingThinkYouLookSee

I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don't even have pierced ears - I'm not into that; it's too much.

ASAP Rocky

FashionDiamondsToo MuchWearSense

George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!

Shailene Woodley

AmazingMeBetter PersonBetterJust

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

Marjane Satrapi

SmokeWithoutImagineCigarette

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