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Pico Iyer Quotes

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Perspective Step Wish Old Need Away

As we start to get a little bit older, boy, keep your house in order. That's the key thing. It's not about the thrills anymore. It's about contentment, about having some serenity.

Jim Irsay

Start Key Serenity House Boy Little

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Individuality Existence Necessary

When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.

Meghan Trainor

Good Me Thought Enough Artist Look

I wasn't an obvious actress in any sense of the word.

Maxine Peake

Obvious Sense Actress Word Any

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

You Raining Little Working Vancouver

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

Robyn Hitchcock

Doing I Can Dead Tell Crowd How

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

Russell Baker

Change Day Know Said Never Clearly

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

Mary Cheney

Vice Candidate Afterthought Bit

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

Mike Stoller

Change Way Write Get Melody Like

Great leadership and great companies aren't built overnight, and they're not built without capital. And capital can sometimes be counter-productive to building a great culture.

Julia Hartz

Leadership Great Culture Building

All I wanted to do was come into my own and find out my career path and what I wanted to do with my life - but, at the same time, showing respect to my father and mother and make them proud as well.

Jovan Adepo

Life Father Mother Path Time Proud

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

Alfred Rosenberg

History Great Time Soul Religion