Plotkin Quotes

#1. Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.

John Kasich

#2. To be human is to be lost in the woods.

Elizabeth Lesser

#3. I prefer consider Stromae as a collective project. Stromae is not me. Or at least it is not only me.

Stromae

#4. Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.

Bill Plotkin

#5. Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

Mark Plotkin

#6. It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.

Andrew Plotkin

#7. The soul faithfully comes to our aid through dreams, deep emotion, love, the quiet voice of guidance, synchronicities, revelations, hunches, and visions, and at times through illness, nightmares, and terrors.

Bill Plotkin

#8. I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'

Andrew Plotkin

#9. If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

Andrew Plotkin

#10. I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

Cherie Lunghi

#11. Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I'd call it a party game, except that it's a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.

Andrew Plotkin

#12. Having lost the training and rites that prepare a girl for becoming truly queenly, a mature woman, we have instead beauty-queen contests for five-year-olds.

Bill Plotkin

#13. What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

Bill Plotkin

#14. And it came to Daisy out of the blue. Her mother was a human being. How rarely she saw it.

Mark Haddon

#15. Given that the human soul is the very core of our human nature, we might note that, when we are guided by soul, we are guided by nature. Both soul and greater nature do guide us in our individual development, whether or not we ask for this guidance.

Bill Plotkin

#16. The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask.

Mark Plotkin

#17. If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is.

Andrew Plotkin

#18. Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Harriet Lerner

#19. Nature, too, supports our personal blossoming (if we have any quiet exposure to her) through her spontaneities, through her beauty, power, and mirroring, through her dazzling variety of species and habitats, and by way of the wind, Moon, Sun, stars, and galaxies.

Bill Plotkin

#20. Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

Mark Plotkin

#21. Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.

Bill Plotkin