Gary Zukav Quotes

This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

Gary Zukav

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 17, 1942

Topics

ChangeFearTimeYourselfWorldYou

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.

Joan Jett

PeopleCrazyEasyYouKnowSay

I've never been much into picking things apart.

Meg White

NeverThingsBeenMuchApart

I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman.

John Legend

LiveBlackEnoughLongMoviesSee

I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

Ry Cooder

PushHeadPatternsGetKnockedLike

If you want to walk me, walk me. But if I see something close to home plate, I want to swing.

Miguel Cabrera

HomeWalkMeYouWantSwing

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Joseph Brodsky

LanguageInevitableMoreAncientAny

As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

Douglas Rushkoff

TechnologyIntelligenceGovernmentMe

When I fought Benson Henderson for the first time, or Jamie Varner, it was always like, 'Oh man... I'm in here fighting these guys. Do I really belong here?' That's all changed now.

Donald Cerrone

TimeManFightingNowFirst Time

If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.

Christian Louboutin

YouBodyLookWrongStrangeHeight

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

Anthony Browne

FindMoreDifficultArtistsWriters

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Paul Thomas Anderson

TimeRebelWillAlwaysAgainst

I have a lot of gay friends, and some have not come out, and... it just hurts me that there are some people who can't feel like they can be themselves because society is not accepting to them. I literally see their happiness deprived.

Tia Mowry

HappinessPeopleMeSocietyFriends

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