Pico Iyer Quotes

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You get used to that work mode, get used to always doing something.

Joe Penny

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I don't find anything comes out of getting in someone's face during an interview and screaming.

Matt Lauer

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A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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As an open system, Android is not under the tight control of its creator, Google.

Steven Levy

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I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.

Steven Yeun

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I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.

Dean Karnazes

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Antisthenes

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People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.

Tia Carrere

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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Martin Luther

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Tony Blair has made a good contribution to the cause of peace in Ireland. He has made a great effort to understand it. He has great empathy with the need to resolve the conflict.

Martin McGuinness

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