Denise Robbins Quotes

Life's adventures make great reading! ~ Denise Robbins

Don't expect people to abide by your rules if you don't clearly communicate what they are. And don't expect them to live by your rules if you're not willing to compromise and live by at least some of theirs. ~ Tony Robbins

In his classic
account of the life of the Nuer of the Sudan, British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard
(1940:103) noted that
the Nuer have no expression equivalent to "time" in our language, and they cannot,
therefore, as we can, speak of time as though it were something actual, which passes,
can be wasted, can be saved, and so forth. I don't think they ever experience the
same feeling of fighting against time because their points of reference are mainly
the activities themselves, which are generally of a leisurely character. Events follow
a logical order, but they are not controlled by an abstract system, there being no
autonomous points of reference to which activities have to conform with precision.
Nuer are fortunate. ~ Richard H. Robbins

I've faced a hell of a lot worse than you today, you lizard-tongued monster! ~ Denise Grover Swank

Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves. ~ Tony Robbins

Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable. ~ John Robbins

Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you're currently doing isn't working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal. ~ Tony Robbins

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure. ~ Tony Robbins

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him. ~ Daphne Zuniga

These three brothers were not afforded the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law. They were not given a fair and public trial. Paramilitaries, under the command of senior Ministry of Interior officials, denied them these rights and shot them in cold blood. ~ Garry Robbins

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport. ~ Tim Robbins

Meditation," said his teacher, "hasn't got a damn thing to do with anything, 'cause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn't develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases the self. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. What good is it? Good for nothing. Excellent for nothing. Yes, Lord, but when you get down to nothing, you get down to ultimate reality. It's then and exactly then that you're sensing the true nature of the universe, you're linked up with the absolute Absolute, son, and unless you're content with blowing smoke up your butt all your life, that there's the only place to be. ~ Tom Robbins

Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action. ~ Tony Robbins

Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing. ~ Tom Robbins

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real. ~ Alexandra Robbins

It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences. ~ Tony Robbins

Every memory is a re-creation, not a playback. When we remember, we focus on certain facts and emotions, and become active participants in re-creating memories. ~ Alexandra Robbins

You are not promised anything beyond THIS MOMENT! ~ Jairek Robbins

Well, it's not the amount of money you spend, but how you decide to spend it that matters. "Every day spending choices unleash a cascade of biological and emotional effects that are detectable right down to saliva," reports Harvard's Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton in their brilliant 2013 book, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending. ~ Anthony Robbins

Now, in the eyes of the stars, men may be no more exalted than beasts, and kingly men no worthier than the wretched. ~ Tom Robbins

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. ~ Tom Robbins

I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation. ~ Denise Mina

Someone else's success is not your failure. ~ Alexandra Robbins

Summer had come to sit on New York's face. ~ Tom Robbins

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others. ~ Tom Robbins

I eat quite healthily normally but, like everyone, have relapses and give in to the odd cake. ~ Denise Van Outen

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You've never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don't even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you'll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside. ~ Tom Robbins

Reading is like magic--I think I've made my case. Without the gift of words, this world's a crazy place! ~ Denise Walter McConduit

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary. ~ Tom Robbins

Giving up on your dreams, that's the only way to truly fail! ~ Doug Robbins

She thought these thoughts to herself as in her mind's eye she ran naked through the woods, hugging trees. ~ Tom Robbins

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches. ~ Tim Robbins

Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy. ~ Denise Linn

When you wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep. ~ Denise Baer

I think spirituality is a part of everything. It doesn't need to be separated out from everything else. ~ Tony Robbins

I have never passed a bookstore without going inside; it's sacrilegious ~ Denise Hildreth Jones

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer. ~ J. Robbins

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. ~ Tom Robbins

The clown is a creature of chaos. ~ Tom Robbins

In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So I was one of them, and I started reading, basically it was the Marvel Renaissance at that point. It was all their new characters, Spiderman and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. ~ Trina Robbins