Ron Koertge Quotes

#1. Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

David Eagleman

#2. You've got scars, you're beat up, you're a different person, but you're through it.

Ron Koertge

#3. Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

Greg McKeown

#4. Dark night of the soul," said Jesus, "Happens to everybody sooner or later.

Ron Koertge

#5. No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben

Ron Koertge

#6. That's why babies cry so much. All of a sudden having a body is a lot to deal with.

Ron Koertge

#7. Kids don't think about their folks nearly as much as everybody imagines. Parents are just there, like background music at the mall.

Ron Koertge

#8. Walker grinned.
'Ah,' said Jesus. 'There it is. Signs of your holiness.'
'I just smiled. You made a dumb joke, and I smiled.'
'And that isn't holy?

Ron Koertge

#9. It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

Mark Leyner

#10. Little kids I don't mind. Every kid wants a pony. It's grown-ups that get my robe in a knot. Stop with the begging, okay? Adore me for a change. Or give thanks. I like gratitude. Or ask for guidance. But oh, no. It's always the pony.

Ron Koertge

#11. What we do is just race hard on the track every week. That's the way I'd like it to be documented, and if we watch the tape, we'll see that the No. 48 swerved into us first and I know that, before even watching the tape.

Kurt Busch

#12. Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

Donald A. Norman

#13. I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss ... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page.

Ron Koertge

#14. All over town kids lay awake & wondered: Am I smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, tall enough? If our fears were smoke, the town would be covered night & day by an inky pall.

Ron Koertge

#15. Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I'm not giving advice. I don't instruct. At my best, I delight. That's my job.

Ron Koertge

#16. The most effective way to combat speech you don't like is with speech.

Peter Salovey

#17. If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to the library, they'd have to send out for more books.

Ron Koertge

#18. [Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

Auguste Piccard

#19. I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.

George Lucas

#20. The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen ... one of them ... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.

Ron Koertge

#21. I always sit through the credits. I am always the last one out of any theater. I even make a point of being last. I stay in my seat until everyone else has shuffled past. Then I turn my back, too, on the comforting dark.

Ron Koertge

#22. You're a miracle, Walker. Your fingers are. Your toes are. Your crushing sadness and guilt are.

Ron Koertge

#23. I believe most definitely that one must not only grapple with the problems on the board, one must also make every effort to combat the thoughts and will of the opponent.

Mikhail Tal

#24. Since I don't know where I'm going, I guess I'm in no real hurry to get there.

Ron Koertge

#25. As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

Will Durant