Hirstein Quotes

#1. Forget the pain. Learn to endure. Focus your attention elsewhere.

Marlo Morgan

#2. 'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.

Nigel Lythgoe

#3. The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in the lab by researchers. If we allow the mental its own existence as a category disjoint from the physical, we will never be able to get it back in.

William Hirstein

#4. We exist within the question of God.

William Barrett

#5. Imagination is what convinces us that there's more to the world than meets the eye. And isn't that the first principle of faith?

Jonathan Rogers

#6. An oak tree and I are made of the same stuff. If you go far enough back, we have a common ancestor. The

Carl Sagan

#7. The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is.

Leonard Jacobson

#8. I like rules. Without them, we don't know what to break.

Helmut Krone

#9. I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

Bobby Flay

#10. Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

Sidney Sheldon

#11. The laws you see today are a direct consequence of economic illiteracy in the general population. If every voter learned economics tonight, the laws would change tomorrow.

Ben Mathew

#12. It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

Saad Hariri

#13. There is no fundamental, unalterable difference between things: all is flux, all is perishable. The surface of your being is constantly crumbling; within however you grow hard as a diamond. And perhaps it is this hard, magnetic core inside you which attracts others to you willy-nilly.

Henry Miller

#14. More than ever, we are dealing with the history of the masses, and no history of individuals. Less than ever, it is possible to predict the near future ...

Andrei I. Shingarev