Alan Quotes

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We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

The mind's the standard of the man.

You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.

Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.

Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!

A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.