“A sense of humour, or we are going to be fucked.” LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthHumourReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“I made it! I paddled 1,250 miles down the bloody Amazon, got muscles where I never knew any existed and a really hard arse!” LifeTruthMemoriesHumourTravelReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“Inspection No. 3 On a single dead white bough Of a single death white tree Is scratched a mark Of the hooded hawk's want Talon probes in drying sinew Hungry vulture slumped in a dying land Unseeled eye pouring a glaze to the world's end Rattling dags in the memories seed Shade of disaster tearing a sign In warning spaces No sick prey for him to tend Wing-weak without his stoop His beak turns inwards” LifePhilosophyPoemContemplationAttributed No SourcePoetry Life Author:Gordon Roddick
“Crux: something that occasions difficulty.” LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“Shed me a tear! For I am wrought Upon your crossed arms Stretched tight Like the gutted deer. Chaliced In your double-lip I no longer hear The sounds.” LifePhilosophyPoemContemplationAttributed No SourcePoetry Life Author:Gordon Roddick
“Bullshit laid bare - another refuge for me to hide, another reason not to think or to bear responsibility; life gallops by on the other side.” LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthHumourReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“What saved us once again was our willingness to recognise that we were wrong and our ability to move on to the next idea.” LifeWisdomTruthReflectionEntrepreneurshipContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body Shop Author:Gordon Roddick
“We constantly dreamed of better ways to live and make money and held monthly ‘ideas’ meetings with friends – brainstorming for a better life!” LifeWisdomTruthReflectionEntrepreneurshipContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body Shop Author:Gordon Roddick
“It is only perhaps two or three occasions in a lifetime that an outrageous idea comes to one and all the pieces seem to fit; this was such an occasion.” LifeWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source1976The Body Shop Author:Gordon Roddick, 1976
“The one thing I know is that I am going to have a fascinating time, win-lose or what, and for that reason alone, the whole thing will have been worthwhile.” LifeWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source1976The Body Shop Author:Gordon Roddick, 1976