C. L. R. James Quotes

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.

Spirituality can not be separate from how we treat our bodies, construct our lifestyles, and keep our energy at higher levels.

If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world.

Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction.

This is [her] soul group.’ What do you mean?’ It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.

Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.

We must intend to live [the new spiritual awareness], to integrate each increased degree of awareness into our daily routine. It only takes one negative interpretation to stop everything.

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

Resilience is not just a complimentary individual quality, but something that is built. And you build it through a number of things in your life, part of it being social fabric.

At the end of the day, the task I have is just like anyone else, to prove myself through my product or work. I've really found this to be true, the name advantage is a zero sum gain.

Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.

There needs to be the support and help around you, even when you may have an unhealthy home environment.

I'm in full support of that technique [meditation] , and what David Lynch is doing. It's very important.

There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about our father's generation.

When you have really solid biology and medical science at the core of an issue, it makes it much easier to identify what potential solutions may be.

What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.

In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.

I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times, and there is a stoicism in the face of challenges that I greatly admire.

I was initially cast as Corporal Hicks, and I was fired after a couple weeks of filming because I got busted for possession of drugs, and Michael Biehn replaced me.

Any good actor is a character actor.

James Remar is a student of life. I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living.

Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.

Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.

I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

Anger has been ready to be angry.

Too much apology doubles the offense.

They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.

I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions: are we in love, Life, are we exclusive, are we forever?

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

There are silences harder to take back than words.

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

I wrote Pay Any Price as my answer to the government's campaign against me.

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'