Ken Kizi Quotes & Sayings

Only by helping yourself first can you help the poor. Only by changing yourself first, can you change their condition. You achieve this by first removing from your mind any thoughts of poverty, for to think of something is to invoke it. — Stephen Richards

Show me, I beg. There's — Sarina Bowen

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them. — Ken Blanchard

Nobody should have to clean up what goes on around the base of most toilets. — T. Cooper

But to anyone reasonable, my life will seem more or less normal-under-the-microscope, full of contingencies and incongruities none of us escapes and which do little harm in an existence that otherwise goes unnoticed. — Richard Ford

The scaling theory of localization demonstrated that the disorder-induced M-I transition was a true phase transition with a well defined critical point. — Alan J. Heeger

And what do you think true love is? her father had asked her. 'Loving even when all hope is gone,' she had answered. — Kate Forsyth

I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written. — G. Willow Wilson

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to. — Warren Mitchell

You can realize your dream, as long as it's got enough nightmare in it — Kieron Gillen

And death doesn't wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can't even see straight — Lili St. Crow

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live. — Leo Tolstoy

The sad fact is that we're not educated to be aware and therefore able to question the reality created by our thinking. We don't realize that we must take responsibility for our thoughts to find out if they are really true, and then set aside or at least acknowledge those that are simply opinion and bias. We don't recognize that most thoughts are ultimately judgments, and that the truth of any judgment is how that judgment makes us feel. — Richard Moss

Shift from being afraid of making a mistake to being afraid of not making a mistake. If you are not making any mistakes, you are not learning or growing — Susan Jeffers

The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - imagined it could impose a government on that country that would provide a buffer against China and stop the supposedly rolling dominos of Communism. — Jay Parini