Alan Quotes

One man's constant is another man's variable.

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

You are doing better than you think you are.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

Everybody has their story to tell.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. “Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

Range is of the ego, form is of the soul.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.