Pico Iyer Quotes

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: February 11, 1957

Topics

BestRevolutionInformationTeachUs

The closer I get to retirement, the more I feel it will be a huge change, a shock, because athletics has been the core of my whole life. I know I'll miss the feeling of running fast, the adrenaline rush, and hearing the crowd cheering me on.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

LifeChangeMeRetirementFeelFast

I begin by considering an effect.

Maurice Ravel

BeginEffectConsidering

The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.

Angela Merkel

WayNeverSystemUsOnlyAgain

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Sophocles

WordsPainCheckStillYourCure

I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'

Robbie Robertson

PeopleSayingBetterRememberWant

Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.

Rohan Marley

CoffeeQualityHealthySoilCome

Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.

Marvin Hagler

TimeFireFeelBackStopKnow

Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.

Miguel Nicolelis

ChangeBrainSelfElectricityBody

When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.

Michael Sheen

ChangeYouLookMiraclesJesus

Steve Carell is the most spectacular ad-lib improviser ever. And just doing a scene with him, it's just one incredible topping himself on every take.

Lucy Punch

DoingHimTakeJust OneJustMost

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

Juicy J

MusicTimePeopleInfluenceBe True

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

Josiah Royce

RespectWorldWillIndustryConsent

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