Unreceptive Quotes

#1. Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Karl Kraus

#2. I am not ... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.

Fran Lebowitz

#3. My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.

Bode Miller

#4. I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

Imogen Poots

#5. To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Doug Larson

#6. Marx's critique of free markets and free trade can shed as much devastating light on our own actually existing capitalism as it did for the capitalism of Marx's own time and place.

David Harvey

#7. My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#8. Venturing out of your comfort zone may be dangerous, yet do it anyways because our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

Twyla Tharp

#9. What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.

Kalup Linzy

#10. I often think it would be such luxury to go mad, and not have to worry about anything. Others would have to worry for me, about me.

Charlotte Bronte

#11. I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

Chrissie Hynde