Dr FB Willis Quotes

All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

Balding if God's way of showing you are only human... He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.

You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.

Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.

The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.

Love is the only unifier in the world. We've all felt exactly the same way. It'll make you crazy and it'll make you ecstatic and that's true for everyone.

I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

Research is appreciation.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Flatter yourself critically.

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

Blessed are the joymakers.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.

how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.

A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills.

It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.

My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work.

I'm inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.

You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.

I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

Grateful that it brought me to a point of really seeing myself and really seeing where I was imbalanced, and really seeing it was a message from the Divine that changed my life.

Definitely an intelligence in the light of the heart. In yoga, we refer to this as the heart center - right behind the breastbone, and visualize it as a golden candle flame of light and spirit.

I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen.

Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.

I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.

I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing.

I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.

I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego.

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?

I think that the "what if" game is what you guys get to do. I don't have to do that. I hate the "what if" game. I'm such a believer in everything happening the way it's supposed to happen.

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

The difference between trying to be fit and not being fit really means the difference between life and death.

I had no idea Canada could be so much fun.

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.