Jim Dodge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.
-- Jim Dodge

#Mean #Anarchy #Thrive
It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing.
-- Jim Dodge

#Acceptance #Interesting #Growing
The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.
-- Jim Dodge

#Light #Mind #Shadow
Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?
-- Jim Dodge

#Too Good To Be True #Being True
It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself.
-- Jim Dodge

#Clothes #Needs #Levels

Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

Jim Dodge famous quotes

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