Quotes About Narcotics Anonymous

#1. My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Or maybe that was the definition of crazy.

David Estes

#2. The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the edge of the known world, by nothing more than a hunger of the spirit, a yearning of such queer intensity that it beggars the modern imagination.

Jon Krakauer

#3. Because I see you, he said simply. What I heard was, Because I love you.

J. Kenner

#4. She'd read somewhere that the definition of crazy was doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.

Laurelin Paige

#5. Stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#6. In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

Noam Chomsky

#7. Addiction is nothing but voluntary madness.

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#8. Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

Marie Antoinette

#9. Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Holbrook Jackson

#10. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!
(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

Brian Rock

#11. And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids.

Tim LaHaye

#12. When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.

Bert McCracken

#13. Every time I draw a clean breath, I'm like a fish out of water.

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#14. I don't think a being endowed with will-power should ever despair,as long as his hear beats.

Jules Verne

#15. Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

Anthony Kiedis

#17. So Christian went on his way, saying: Here have I seen things rare and profitable; Things pleasant, dreadful; things to make me stable In what I have begun to take in hand: Then let me think on them, and understand Wherefore they showed me where; and let me be Thankful, O good Interpreter, to thee.

John Bunyan

#18. Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

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#19. For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

Justin Bartha

#20. To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

Robert G. Thompson

#21. Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

Stephen Covey

#22. If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Michael Bassey