Picard Quotes

#1. I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

Patrick Stewart

#2. I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

Patrick Stewart

#3. This was a conversation I had with a so-called-fellow-trekkie the other day:
'So Picard or Kirk?' I asked.
'What?'
'Star Trek ... '
'Oh, Kirk.'
'Why?'
'I like the name better.'
I could have slammed his head against the table.

Melanie Kay Taylor

#4. Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor.
Picard

Gene Roddenberry

#5. One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Patrick Stewart

#6. Picard only saw the movie, which had the entire Tales of the Black Starship subplot removed for time.

Wil Wheaton

#7. Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence,

Max Picard

#8. I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.

Drake Doremus

#9. Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.

Guy Finley

#10. What most news people don't comprehend is that most of the public are not heavy information seekers - unlike journalists and the smaller portion of the population that is socially, politically and economically active.

Robert G. Picard

#11. The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.

Robert G. Picard

#12. Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

Max Picard

#13. We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

Harville Hendrix

#14. Allow your inner-child out to play!

Lisa Picard

#15. Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

Jane Jacobs

#16. I am not a properly trained historian. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character.

Liza Picard

#17. I defend the right of almost everything to be published ... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.

Christie Hefner

#18. Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere.

Robert G. Picard

#19. Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.

Robert G. Picard

#20. I wonder if in part why so many people are angry at Microsoft is not just because their products frustrate them so much, but also because this frustration is ignored. The computer makes people feel like they are dummies, when in fact it is the computer that is stupid.

Rosalind Picard

#21. Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

Max Picard

#22. Be where the world is going.

Beth Comstock

#23. If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.

Antonio Davis

#24. It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.

Patrick Stewart

#25. I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest and want to quit. But you will have to stop searching for me because I will never stop searching for you.(Mercer)

Philip K. Dick

#26. Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.

Robert G. Picard

#27. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Ambrose Bierce

#28. HARRY POTTER RESCUE MISSION

J.K. Rowling

#29. It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

Robert G. Picard

#30. Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

Mary McCarthy

#31. Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

Max Picard

#32. Whether we commit seppuku by our own hands or are crucified by the executioner, our ultimate end is to die. This is a band of death, but death with honor!

John Allyn

#33. Hail, blest Confusion! here are met
All tongues, and times, and faces;
The Lancers flirt with Juliet,
The Brahmin talks of races.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#34. We must look to the heavens ... for the measure of the earth.

Jean Picard

#35. It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.

Robert G. Picard

#36. My most annoying question is 'Hilary, are you ever going to play a pretty girl?'

Hilary Swank