Alan Quotes

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

Black implies white self implies other

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

Our history is not our destiny.

People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.

If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.

Together we are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world through kindness

If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.

The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.

You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.

You don’t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.'

The man is United - cut him and he bleeds red

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.

Some players need a boot up their backside. Other players need the arm

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.