Hempton Quotes & Sayings

Something great is going to happen today, I can't wait to see what it Is! — Brook Noel

Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one has ever done anything wholly for others. All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving. — Irvin D. Yalom

What magnetic force draws us to scenes of pain, and words that wound us? You have seen this, I told myself as I marched along to that apartment. You have seen this already, you've lived through this, spare yourself — Andrew Sean Greer

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had. — Richard Rohr

Some pieces couldn't be glued back together. Some people weren't for fixing.
Sometimes, the only thing to do was burn the whole fucking world down and start again. — Abigail Haas

Working on 'Dexter' is like shooting one big movie every year. — David Zayas

Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, and lets us know who we are. Left with a more receptive mind and a more attuned ear, we become better listeners not only to nature but to each other. Silence can be carried like embers from a fire. Silence can be found, and silence can find you. Silence can be lost and also recovered. But silence cannot be imagined, although most people think so. To experience the soul-swelling wonder of silence, you must hear it. — Gordon Hempton

It was thrilling, wasn't it? [ ... ] That moment, that perfect moment you let go of your rigid concepts of what was possible. When there was nothing left to do but step beyond anything you'd learned before ... when you stopped being a poor mimic and became a master of the mind. How did that feel?"
"Empowering. — Scott Snyder

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then. — Patricia C. Wrede

I don't drink to make others look better, I just drink to make myself feel prettier. — Brooke Bida

True Silence is really endless speech. — Ramana Maharshi

I do not innovate. I transmit. — Andre Derain

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline. — Viggo Mortensen

In 1998 Gordon Hempton, a sound recordist attempting to build a library of natural sounds, toured fifteen states west of the Mississippi and found only two areas--in the mountains of Colorado and the Boundary Waters of Minnesota--that were free of motors, aircraft, industrial clamor, or gunfire for more than fifteen minutes during daylight. — Robyn Griggs Lawrence

All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it. You just need to pay attention to it and gain experience over the years. — Wladimir Klitschko

Give it some gas, Six, damn,' Nine complains. 'Drive it like we stole it. — Pittacus Lore

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery. — John Powell