Joko Beck Quotes

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

Joko Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FearGreatPainAnxietyFindNice

It is extremely hard to bring a claim for compensation against the police or the Crown Prosecution Service, even when a person has been charged with an offence and later cleared.

Robert Rinder

ServicePoliceCrownPersonHard

I like to be in bed at 11, and I like to get 11 hours of sleep.

Matthew Gray Gubler

SleepBedGetLikeHours

We need to strike better trade deals, but we need to do it in a way that ensures that we are at the table on these deals.

Jeanne Shaheen

BetterTableStrikeWayNeedTrade

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

John Sterling

LieManBelieveWillOnlyLies

Everybody has their own style.

Ana Patricia Botin

StyleOwnEverybody

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Stephen Fry

YourselfYouBackMoreHeightExtra

I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do things essentially in cooperation with their audience. It's pretty amazing, actually.

Steve Albini

AmazingThinkProblemCooperation

Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study.

Sue Monk Kidd

TimeMovingBookWingsBackDone

New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.

Robert Asprin

LifeMorningDayNightStartNew

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Michael Shermer

FaithLogicNothingEmotionalLittle

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

Mitch Daniels

GovernmentBehaviorFederal Government

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.

Douglass North

LifeSchoolCompetitionCollegeHigh

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