Top 100 Epstein's Quotes
#1. If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.
Malcolm Gladwell
#2. They say the personal is political and it's certainly fair to say that, like her politics, Rebecca Epstein's kissing is radical, forthright and uncompromising.
David Nicholls
#3. For those that don't know much about 'American Idiot' or Green Day, just know that it's my generation's The Who's 'Tommy' or Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' It was an album that really spoke to a generation. The theatrical show encapsulates that feeling and brings it to an even wider audience.
Jake Epstein
#4. Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.
Jason Epstein
#5. When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his theory of relativity in a book. 'Were I wrong,' he said, 'one professor would have been enough.
Jacob Epstein
#6. Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.
Brian Epstein
#8. There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance leviathan." (p.299)
Edward Jay Epstein
#9. The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don't need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it.
Mark Epstein
#10. What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering.
Gerald Epstein
#11. Consider that children grow more quickly in spring and summer than in fall and winter, and that this is apparently due to sunlight signals that enter through the eyeballs, since the growth of totally blind children consists of similar fluctuations but are not synchronized with the seasons.
David Epstein
#12. We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.
Joseph Epstein
#13. If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.
Jake Epstein
#14. The koans in the Blue Cliff Record do their best to introduce people to their true natures. One of them (number 27 out of 100) quotes a monk asking the master Yun Men, "How is it when the tree withers and the leaves fall?" There are many ways to interpret the question, of course.
Mark Epstein
#15. We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands.
Edward Jay Epstein
#16. Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation? (CIA Document, Project ARTICHOKE, MORI ID 144686, 1952)
As cited by Dr Ellen P. Lacter, p57
Orit Badouk Epstein
#17. The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections.
Richard A. Epstein
#18. The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.
Edward Jay Epstein
#19. The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.
Alex Epstein
#20. RBGH poses an even greater risk to human health than ever considered. The FDA and Monsanto have a lot to answer for. Given the cancer risks, and other health concerns, why is rBGH milk still on the market?
Samuel Epstein
#21. Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.
Mark Epstein
#22. My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
Joseph Epstein
#23. For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.
Joseph Epstein
#24. One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.
Joseph Epstein
#25. Not everyone strives to be fashionable. I don't, and I believe I succeed.
Joseph Epstein
#26. I really love young Tom Hanks. He's just one of my favorites. He's a great, quirky every-man. I also love Zach Braff. I really love actors that are quirky and interesting, that sort of try to portray 'normal' people.
Jake Epstein
#27. The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
Joseph Epstein
#28. What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.
Jake Epstein
#29. Separate and together cease to be mutually exclusive and instead become, in psychoanalyst Christopher Bolla's phrase, reciprocally enhancing and mutually informative.
Mark Epstein
#30. Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister.' And that's all she has to say.
Robin Epstein
#31. The Epstein Drive hadn't given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets. Three-quarters
James S.A. Corey
#32. Whose interest does egg freezing serve? The woman's or that of an ambitious, still pretty unforgiving culture that doesn't really ever see childbearing for female employees as convenient?
Randi Hutter Epstein
#33. But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.
Brian Epstein
#34. If I'm ever at a mall or some kind of place where there's a lot of younger girls, some people will recognize me from 'Degrassi.' But then it won't happen for a long time. It's funny - it happens more here in the States than it does in Canada.
Jake Epstein
#35. My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein
#36. There are no U-Turns or Exit Ramps in this life, move forward and don't look back.
John S. Epstein
#38. The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.
Jason Epstein
#39. In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.
Edward Jay Epstein
#40. Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they're two totally different mediums. On stage, you worry about your voice and how you move physically. On TV, something like an eye twitch is what they could be looking for from you because it's so contained.
Jake Epstein
#41. The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.
Jake Epstein
#42. In an era when gay men like Beatles' manager Brian Epstein paid a fortune in blackmail to hustlers to keep their secrets safe, Andy Warhol took everything he was told to keep hidden and threw it right back in society's face.
Andrew Grant Jackson
#43. It's more fun to hang out with someone who's upbeat and positive than it is to hang out with Hater McWhineypants.
Robin Epstein
#44. The kids all literally think I'm Spider-Man, and they ask me how I shoot my webs. It's flattering and crazy, but it's Spider-Man they're in awe of, not Jake Epstein.
Jake Epstein
#45. One of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also washes us up on the shores of the loved one's otherness. Sooner or later, love makes us feel inescapably separate.
Mark Epstein
#46. The fact that we live without God is, in a sense, not up to us. It's not really a choice ... But goodness is a choice. It is the most important choice we can ever make. And we have to make it again and again, throughout our lives and in every aspect of our lives.
Greg M. Epstein
#47. Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom,
Mark Epstein
#48. Contrast, humanistic ethics takes the position that if man is alive he knows what is allowed; and to be alive means to be productive, to use one's powers not for any purpose transcending man, but for oneself, to make sense of one's existence, to be human. As
Greg M. Epstein
#49. [The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.
Alex Epstein
#50. Brian Epstein was like all people who turn out to be of interest, someone who was of interest to himself. I hear this a lot now. There's a feeling of I am different.
Derek Taylor
#51. The single thought that can empower us to empower the world: Mankind's use of fossil fuels is supremely virtuous-because the human life is the standard of value, and because using fossil fuels transforms our environment to make it wonderful for human life.
Alex Epstein
#52. Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds ... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.
Joseph Epstein
#53. He wrote that if great sex were necessary to make babies, humans would be fossils by now.
Randi Hutter Epstein
#54. The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.
Richard Arnold Epstein
#55. There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.
Peter York
#57. The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
Joseph Epstein
#58. Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.
Alex Epstein
#59. If you ever meet anyone who tells you his or her religion can offer all the answers, run for the hills. Or at least hide your wallet.
Greg M. Epstein
#60. A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.
Jacob Epstein
#61. To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment ...
Joseph Epstein
#62. I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.
Jake Epstein
#63. The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.
Richard Allen Epstein
#64. One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.
Alex Epstein
#65. I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.
Jake Epstein
#66. Developmental trauma occurs when "emotional pain cannot find a relational home in which it can be held."1 In retrospect, I can see that this was the case for
Mark Epstein
#68. To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.
Alex Epstein
#69. I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.
Jake Epstein
#71. I believe the evidence is clear that nuclear is the safest energy technology
Alex J. Epstein
#72. In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort of have this fusion/soul/R&B/folk music kind of thing. We've been keeping it low-key and opening for some friends.
Jake Epstein
#73. It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?
Robin Epstein
#74. It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence
Mark Epstein
#75. But it's not enough to just "discover" the meaning of life. What really matters is whether we live according to our values, and that takes hard work and a hundred hard choices every day.
Greg M. Epstein
#76. From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills rather than risking his earnings on the mindless meanderings of chance. Experience, however, has strongly indicated the reverse proposition to hold true.
Richard Arnold Epstein
#77. That there are limitations to the Jewish response of humor when Jews today face murderous, humorless terrorists in the Middle East or the cowardly politicians of Europe seeking the votes of their increasingly Muslim electorates.
Joseph Epstein
#78. the word that the Buddha used for suffering, dukkha, actually has the more subtle meaning of "pervasive unsatisfactoriness," I was even more impressed. "Suffering" always sounded a bit melodramatic, even if a careful reading of history seemed to support it. "Pervasive unsatisfactoriness
Mark Epstein
#79. The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum.
Joseph Epstein
#80. The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.
Joseph Epstein
#81. What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
Jason Epstein
#82. One of the oldest mythological fables tells of Mercury playing at dice with Selene and winning from her the five days of the epact (thus totaling the 365 days of the year and harmonizing the lunar and solar calendars).
Richard Arnold Epstein
#83. Someone - Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? - once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.
Joseph Epstein
#84. What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly serious
Joseph Epstein
#85. What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams ... and what we do to make them come about.
Joseph Epstein
#86. When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing.
Jake Epstein
#87. I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.'
I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.'
'What does that mean?'
'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.
Robin Epstein
#88. [Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.
Joseph Epstein
#89. Old people like to give good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
Joseph Epstein
#90. Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.
Joseph Epstein
#91. Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.
Mark Epstein
#92. There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now.
Greg M. Epstein
#93. This harkens back to Freud's famous question, "What does woman want?" As Epstein answers, "She wants a partner who cares what she wants.
Daniel Goleman
#94. When we stop distancing ourselves from the pain in the world, our own or others', we create the possibility of a new experience, one that often surprises because of how much joy, connection, or relief it yields. Destruction may continue, but humanity shines through.
Mark Epstein
#95. I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.
Jake Epstein
#96. In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Joseph Epstein
#97. Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.
Mark Epstein
#98. Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.
Edward Jay Epstein
#100. Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution.
Mark Epstein
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