Chellis Glendinning Quotes

#1. For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me.
Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. I'm getting offered roles that aren't designed for aboriginal people; they're designed for anybody. It's pretty surreal and mind-blowing.

Bronson Pelletier

#3. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

Caterina Fake

#4. Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

George Orwell

#5. Wine and youth are fire upon fire.

Henry Fielding

#6. A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots.

Chellis Glendinning

#7. We always want to be going forward. It's scary to go back.

Chellis Glendinning

#8. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.

Chellis Glendinning

#10. His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.

Joe Henderson

#11. Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

Chellis Glendinning

#12. The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world.

Chellis Glendinning

#13. For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

Viswanathan Anand

#14. You know you are changing
when you no longer have points of references.
Mapping a new life.

Natasha Tsakos

#15. The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

Kabir

#16. I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.

Ted Shackelford

#17. People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."

Chellis Glendinning

#18. He called me his 'dream.' I guess now I've become his nightmare.

Richard Finney

#19. Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach.

Mary Balogh

#20. So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

Thomas P.M. Barnett