Top 95 Eisler Quotes

#1. I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #28798
#2. When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #39795
#3. I thought of an old poker players' expression: If you look around the table and can't spot the sucker, the sucker is you.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #52555
#4. To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #88236
#5. The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #104013
#6. Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #117075
#7. The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #119011
#8. I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #127341
#9. Only teasing', Death seemed to be saying over his shoulder with a rictus smile, with good humor and an oddly paternal affection. 'Take care of yourself, okay? We'll play again.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #137954
#10. If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #150507
#11. I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #151542
#12. It has everything to do with Rotterdam. America's oil addiction is a sickness that's killing the patient. Christ, Americans would rather send soldiers to war than carpool to work.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #187498
#13. The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #215925
#14. Asian face and local language skills to handle the cash. I had just returned to the States from Vietnam, having left the military under a cloud, the origins of which I was able to understand only years later. My mother, the American half of the marriage, had just died; I had no brothers or sisters;

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #234979
#15. Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #243499
#16. I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #273036
#17. If you knew at the outset what you understood at the end, would you make the same choices, take the same risks, accept the same sacrifices? No. No one would. You can't appreciate the weight of that burden until after you've assumed it. You can't comprehend what it really means.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #279692
#18. Gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #323100
#19. Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #395419
#20. When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation's general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #401367
#21. I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #403676
#22. But it's like swimming underwater, you know? At first you feel as though you could go along forever, seeing everything from this new perspective, but eventually you have to come up for air.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #405694
#23. Then she reached lower and started to ease my pants down. I stopped her so I could get my shoes and socks off first. Pants-pooled-at-the-ankles is too helpless a posture for me.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #409450
#24. What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living ... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #413807
#25. Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #417679
#26. Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #431244
#27. no matter the pain or shock or confusion, never stop moving. Never give them a stationary target.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #441122
#28. Shoganai," I said. Literally, There is no way of doing it. "Yes," he said, nodding. "Elsewhere they have Cest la vie, or That's life.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #447197
#29. Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

Hanns Eisler

Eisler Quotes #482770
#30. To change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #488034
#31. The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #505085
#32. There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #509564
#33. Foreigners who think of Japan as a polite society have never ridden the Yamanote at rush hour. The

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #570698
#34. He glanced to his left, which for most people is a neurolinguistic sign of recall rather than of construction. Had he looked in the opposite direction, I would have read it as a lie.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #604087
#35. A mole could only avoid and evade the monitoring systems of which he was aware. Which made it crucial that almost no one be permitted to see the whole picture. Within

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #632232
#36. What I was doing, I was sabotaging myself. Well, it was time I stopped.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #665841
#37. I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes sense, to find a sweet spot between the high-end of what my brand can support and the low end that results in impulse purchases and maximum sales volume.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #671259
#38. I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #680833
#39. Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #702406
#40. Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #757824
#41. Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #800008
#42. A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

Hanns Eisler

Eisler Quotes #804598
#43. War and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #806703
#44. I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #841494
#45. The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #841661
#46. Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #877174
#47. In sum, the struggle for our future is ... the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #884925
#48. Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #907109
#49. would show that inside twenty-one feet against a knife, trying to get a gun out is typically a losing bet, especially if you're backing straight up rather than getting off the line.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #942435
#50. The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #958154
#51. it is evident that there is another logical alternative: that there can be societies in which difference is not necessarily equated with inferiority or superiority.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #958585
#52. After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #980838
#53. The essence of samurai is not just service, but loyalty to his master, to a cause greater than himself.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1005191
#54. The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1018675
#55. When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

Barry Eisler

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#56. A survivor reassesses odds continually and doesn't disrespect them.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1037132
#57. You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'

Tatsu.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1074473
#58. For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1122424
#59. War is a part of human nature, and we Japanese are human. But we have never fought, we have certainly never built weapons of mass destruction, to convince the world of the rightness of an idea. It took America and its bastard twin, communism, to do that." He

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1122956
#60. The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1151860
#61. A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1181324
#62. If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1186701
#63. The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1188186
#64. When a boy I could never bear to read any Poetry whatever without disgust and reluctance," he said.32 He

Benita Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1210431
#65. I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1220490
#66. It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1234062
#67. I sighed. Two goodbyes in one night. It was depressing. And it wasn't as though I had a whole Rolodex full of friends. But no sense being sentimental about it. Sentiment is stupid.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1250625
#68. If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1271628
#69. You start slow. You find the subject's limits and get him to spend some time there. He gets used to it. Before long, the limits have moved. You never take him more than a centimeter beyond. You make it feel it's his choice.

Barry Eisler

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#70. Indeed, if we look closely at the art of the Neolithic, it is truly astonishing how much of its Goddess imagery has survived - and that most standard works on the history of religion fail to bring out this fascinating fact.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1309886
#71. At the core of every child is an intact human.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1326469
#72. ...savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands...

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1373711
#73. The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1374760
#74. It seemed he'd recently learned the value of playing up the difficulty of accomplishing whatever he was tasked with, the better to play the hero when he subsequently pulled it off. He was overusing the technique the way a child overuses a new word.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1396974
#75. I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1408275
#76. Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1450083
#77. Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1454161
#78. Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1454495
#79. I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1469154
#80. Prepping people to believe something was the hard part. Once the framework was established, they became eager to fill in the details themselves, and could be counted on to do so even if those details made little sense. Remar

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1481247
#81. I've gotten used to hoping for so little that I seem to have lost any natural immunity to the emotion's infection.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1498986
#82. At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1527836
#83. Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1564503
#84. The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about
indeed obsess about
is life before birth and after death.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1587607
#85. When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1589714
#86. [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

Riane Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1654138
#87. If you want to create opportunities, you have to create movement.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1673891
#88. I looked out at the street beyond the overhang. The rain was coming in at gray angled streaks. One of my hands moved to her cheek. I closed my eyes. Her skin was wet from the rain and I thought of tears.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1677458
#89. People like to say the West is a guilt-based culture, while that of Japan is based on shame, with the chief distinction being that the former is an internalized emotion while the latter depends on the presence of a group. But

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1678764
#90. Good argument is intended to persuade another.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1693155
#91. A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1740820
#92. The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1759780
#93. The hawk with talent hides its talons.

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1840966
#94. From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

Barry Eisler

Eisler Quotes #1849670
#95. Tatsu was true samurai, and would continue serving the same master no matter how many times that master ignored or even abused him. Devoted service was the highest end he knew. It

Barry Eisler

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