Beck Quotes

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

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.

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

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.

Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you're wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you.

None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

You are doing better than you think you are. But we can be better.

Hello, my name is the republican party, and I have a problem. I am addicted to spending and the government - and a big government. I would like one of them just to stand up and say that.

Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.

A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

Life is a second-by-second miracle.

If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?

Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone.

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once.

Nurturing requires organization, patience, love, and work. Helping growth occur through nurturing is truly a powerful and influential role bestowed on women

You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.

If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.

Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way!

The power of art is the power of truth.

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.