Beck Quotes

There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Families mean work,but they are our great work,and we are not afraid of work.

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.

Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you.You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.

We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That's why I say you might as well practice with each moment.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.

You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.

You shine for who you are ... because no one can steal your light.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times.

Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

I've never seen anyone go on the DL with pulled fat.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

As long as there's something original going on, that's all that matters.

I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.