Naess Arne Quotes & Sayings

Every conscious thought you have, every moment you spend on an idea, is a commitment to be stuck with that idea and with aspects of that level of thinking, for the rest of your life. Spending just 10 seconds focusing on a topic that does not serve your interests is to invest your energy along a path that will continue to draw from you and define you. — Kevin Michel

GNP is therefore in a certain sense a value-neutral quantity: a measure of activity, not of activity of any kind of value. A first argument against continued growth is just this. The GNP does not give any guarantee of meaningfulness of that which is created. Growth in GNP does not imply any growth in access to intrinsic values and progress along the course of self-realization. Obviously any kind of economic growth which is not related to intrinsic values is neutral or detrimental. The measure of GNP is somehow related to the fierceness of activity in the society but this fierceness may very well have more to do with a lack of ability of the members of the society to engage in meaningful activity than a measure of something humanity should look upon with joy. There is no clear relation to life quality. — Arne Naess

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him. — Sophocles

I want to be remembered as a professor who said a lot of stupid things to his students. — Arne Naess

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse. — Billy Graham

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think it's cool that people kind of look at me as one of the originators of online video and one of the pioneers of YouTube because I've worked really hard to build an audience and make content that I'm proud of. — Shane Dawson

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly. — Wangari Maathai

Everything will settle in its own place automatically. — Laozi

He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God. — Joseph Goebbels

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination. — Abraham Zaleznik

It's the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him. — Amanda Craig

I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack. — Suzanne Somers