Vicki Robin Quotes

#1. The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition.

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#2. You get one shot. You that good? Because I am."

Concealed Identity

Jessica R. Patch

#3. I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

Lydia Lunch

#4. How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world

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#5. It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.

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#6. Is a way to approach life so that when asked, "Your money or your life?" you say, "I'll take both, thank you.

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#7. We no longer live life. We consume it.

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#8. Kiss me. My lips are on fire.
You, my friend, are the object of my
secret desire.

Lisa Canfield

#9. Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?

Vicki Robin

#10. When you hear people in church, debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.

Bertrand Russell

#11. To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.

Yancy Butler

#12. The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Ahmet Ertegun

#13. Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for.

Vicki Robin

#14. Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of.

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#15. Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.

David Chase

#16. Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

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#17. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

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#18. In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so many essential and elegant systems, it's simple on the surface, challenging to use in the heat of the moment and powerful in its results.

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#19. Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it.

Vicki Robin

#20. To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.

Gary Carter

#21. If you want to live for all, you will never meet anywhere

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