Bill Plotkin Quotes

#1. The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

Cyril Connolly

#2. Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.

Bill Plotkin

#3. An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.

Hesketh Pearson

#4. There is no right time and right place for love ... it can happen any time.

Shah Rukh Khan

#5. The soul faithfully comes to our aid through dreams, deep emotion, love, the quiet voice of guidance, synchronicities, revelations, hunches, and visions, and at times through illness, nightmares, and terrors.

Bill Plotkin

#6. I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

Rob Delaney

#7. Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

Margaret Millar

#8. That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#9. There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.

Fred Ritchin

#10. Beauty is a natural superiority.

Plato

#11. What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

Bill Plotkin

#12. Given that the human soul is the very core of our human nature, we might note that, when we are guided by soul, we are guided by nature. Both soul and greater nature do guide us in our individual development, whether or not we ask for this guidance.

Bill Plotkin

#13. I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion ... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

Annie Lennox

#14. Nature, too, supports our personal blossoming (if we have any quiet exposure to her) through her spontaneities, through her beauty, power, and mirroring, through her dazzling variety of species and habitats, and by way of the wind, Moon, Sun, stars, and galaxies.

Bill Plotkin

#15. Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.

Bill Plotkin

#16. Having lost the training and rites that prepare a girl for becoming truly queenly, a mature woman, we have instead beauty-queen contests for five-year-olds.

Bill Plotkin

#17. I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

Jeff Lindsay