Jeremy Narby Quotes

#1. The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

Joyce Meyer

#2. Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

Terry Pratchett

#3. People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.

Bill Gates

#4. My fat is political because when I show it off it really seems to piss people off. My fat is political because I'm keeping it. My fat is political because it's fucking hot. My fat is my flag, my claim to fame, my battle scar, my secret fat girl society badge.

Virgie Tovar

#5. What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

Jeremy Narby

#6. He's coming up but he got bigger and stronger, that plus the athleticism. I'm going to have to show him that we're just as athletic in the middleweight division as [they are] in the welterweight division. I think he'll do good in the division but I'm glad I get to welcome him to middleweight.

Clint Hester

#7. The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

Jeremy Narby

#8. The Internet was supposed to be the great equalizer,

Gina Bianchini

#9. My advice is that you wait. You can love without making love. It is a beautiful way of showing your feelings but it brings responsibility, great responsibility, and there is no rush.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game.

Tiger Woods

#11. When you are older you will meet a man who will love you for yourself. A good-natured, charming respectable man who is liked by you family.

Amanda Grange

#12. Here are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body
your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.

Jeremy Narby

#13. Discussing external migration issues is impossible without discussing internal migration issues

Jack Goldstone

#14. According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of the cosmos, and is found in numerous creation myths in the form of a tree.

Jeremy Narby

#15. Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

Jeremy Narby

#16. Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street

Jay Leno

#17. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Henny Youngman

#18. In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

Jeremy Narby

#19. Every morning is beautiful, mysterious, and magical, if only you can see it.

Debasish Mridha

#20. If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.

Jeremy Narby

#21. The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive ... in hallucinations and dreams.

Jeremy Narby

#22. This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe.

Jeremy Narby

#23. I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school, and I felt that university would just be spending another four years of my life before I could write.

Neil Gaiman

#24. I say to the young: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

Eleanor Roosevelt