Greg Reitman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

  • I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

  • Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

  • Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

  • I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

  • Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

  • The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

  • There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

  • The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.

  • I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.