Alan Watt Quotes

#1. I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in a little while I'll decide on what I want to put on my plate and chow down on.

Kevin Hearne

#2. We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

Seth

#3. Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

Sheryl Sandberg

#4. I struggle with the whys on my life. why her? why him? why me? I get frustrated with the things that are out of my control and I wonder why people don't deal with the things they can control.

Megan Bostic

#5. The next time you get nervous about others opinions, look them mentally in the eye and say, "What you think of me is none of my business."

Terry Cole-Whittaker

#6. Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.

Alan Watt

#7. There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.

Alan Watt

#8. I went back inside the m-flat. I needed to study. Not for the degree. Screw the degree. I was going to make it rain.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

Alan Watt

#10. Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally I like being fourth cousin to a mushroom and having a bonobo as my closest living relative. It makes me feel a part of the world.

Richard Fortey

#11. That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. And if torture were uniformly ineffective, there would be no need for a treaty banning it - which the Geneva Conventions do.

Anonymous

#13. When you're on a sleeper at night, take your pocketbook and put it in a sock under your pillow. That way, the next morning you won't forget your pocketbook cause you'll be looking for your sock.

Ping Bodie

#14. You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you

Carlo Gambino

#15. God is all over the place. And even if He isn't, if it makes me feel good, why not?

Grace Slick

#16. What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!

Floyd McClung

#17. That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

Mark Rothko

#18. I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and change the world for good.

Joe Ehrmann