Ken Ilgunas Quotes

#1. When things don't happen, people get Sick. They see time Tick and they want it Quick. They forget that Success happens brick by brick.

R.v.m.

#2. These are society's definitions of poverty and wealth: To be poor is to have less and to be rich is to have more. Under these definitions, we are always poor, always covetous, always dissatisfied, no matter the size of our salary, or how comfortable we are, or if our needs are in fact fulfilled.

Ken Ilgunas

#3. We all need a place where we feel safe. A secret place that we like to think is ours.

Ingrid Nickelsen

#4. Envy is a bitter fruit, but one that only grows when we water it with the nourishment of society. Remove society, and it will wither on the vine.

Ken Ilgunas

#5. A college education is one of the few purchases a person can make that cannot be repossessed or auctioned off

Ken Ilgunas

#6. Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

Dominic Chianese

#8. We need so little to be happy. Happiness does not come from things. Happiness comes from living a full and exciting life.

Ken Ilgunas

#9. I'd once heard that we are nothing but our stories. Forget the blood and bones and genes and cells. They're not what we are. We are, rather, our stories. We are an accumulation of experiences that we have fashioned into our own grand, sweeping narrative.

Ken Ilgunas

#10. There's only so often you're going to have an opportunity to contribute at a high level and that you should be grateful whenever one presents itself and not take it lightly.

Ethan Hawke

#11. Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.

James T. Conway

#12. I no longer wished to have a diluted life, made faint by living according to the norms and values of an older generation who'd forgotten what it felt like to have the impassioned representatives of soul and spirit lobby their vessel with an unrelenting persistence to take them on an adventure.

Ken Ilgunas

#13. Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

Terence McKenna

#14. There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die.

Charlie Higson

#15. It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking] ... They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were ... more civilized than the finely bred..for there is no demographic that has a sharper instinct for empathy than the downtrodden.

Ken Ilgunas

#16. At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

Mick Fleetwood

#17. If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that's a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.

Joss Whedon

#18. Stare - really stare - into the womb of creation, and it will be impossible to dedicate your life to mindless accumulation. When you see the aurora, the only logical choice you can make is to spend the rest of your life seeking the sublime.

Ken Ilgunas

#19. Sometimes it's not until you see your shackles that you see your dreams. The soul must first be caged before it can be set free.

Ken Ilgunas

#20. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Robert Benchley