“Each of is an arm of Kannon, enabling Kannon to do her work. Like her, we're also overwhelmed, but when we reallize that the millions of pieces are all operating as one, then there's no problem. The reason we get overwhelmed is that we're attached to a certain result or taht we want to achieve a certain result or that we to achieve a certain goal. If we weren't attached we wouldn't be overwhelmed. It's endless. And we just take one step after the next” IfsWantReasonProblemCertainNextGoalResultsCompassionStepsMillionsPiecesAchieveArmsEndlessOverwhelmedNo ProblemEnablingLike Her Author:Bernie Glassman
“A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.” MindAmericaMillionsPiecesNewsDramaticMosaics Book:The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment
“Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.” GivingKindLittlesWholeBigsSeemsLife IsArtistNextMillionsPiecesCreationParticularBirthGive MeSurpriseInnocentNew ThingsLiving ThingsRefreshing Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
“I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.” LittlesBookFallMillionsPiecesAuthenticityRelyDisappointedCategoriesPublishersControversyMillion Little PiecesI Am Disappointed Author:Oprah Winfrey
“As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being.” LittlesTwoBookTurnsPassionStarsViewsMillionsPiecesStyleProduceFilledInsightPoint Of ViewMemoirUpliftingProseWickedSense Of HumorTwilightFierceDisturbingOutrageDistinctiveBloggersMillion Little Pieces Author:Arianna Huffington
“That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.” WorldWantHeartLittlesBreakMillionsPiecesFeetBearsMy HeartLovelyHeart BreakMillion Little Pieces Book:Lucy: A Novel Source: Lucy: A Novel
“I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.” PeopleIfsPersonsPlayWantedMoralMillionsPiecesImagineExampleTearsReleaseShakesDrowningImplicationsVirusesFormatShake It Up Author:David Hasselhoff
“From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.” AgeYoungThreeMillionsPiecesWindDadMy DadEnginesRecallsThree TimesYoung AgeChristmas Gift Author:Homaro Cantu
“The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany."” WayWantGivingGuyBrainMillionsPiecesGeniusIndependentSellsDollarsFranceGermanyDistributionMillion DollarsFinancing Author:Bill Murray
“It's funny to hear how much certain people resist the lip ring. Sometimes I'll do a piece on an important topic and all the YouTube comments will be about the lip ring. I don't really have a good answer for why I got the lip ring. I just wanted it! But I've had it for a million years. I got my lip pierced when I was like 15.” PeopleYearsImportantSometimesWantedCertainAnswersMillionsPiecesLipsRingsCommentTopicsYoutube Author:Cara Santa Maria
“Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is always fire somewhere nearby. There is always the red-hot stuff of the soul's initiation. If there isn't fire, then it isn't love ... If it doesn't insist that you move to your next level, if it doesn't take your heart and make it explode in a million pieces, only to fall back together again in some Moment of enlightened understanding, then you haven't really loved.” IfsHeartSoulMomentsTogetherMovingFallNextStuffUnderstandingPerfectLevelsMillionsFirePiecesHavensHugeMountainRedGardenHotStormRageGentleEnlightenedBreezeBathsBack TogetherFall BackNext LevelInitiationTogether AgainRed HotBack Together Again Author:Marianne Williamson
“What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.” LittlesHas BeensMightIndividualCompanyMillionsPiecesPaperDollarsBillionsSellingFascinatingOwnersMight Have BeenBorrowedValuation Author:Charlie Munger
“Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.” IfsWarForceBreakMillionsPiecesInternationalRussiaOutcomesLatterParticlesTreatiesMercuryDecomposition Author:Otto von Bismarck
“The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It's time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year.” YearsChildrenMillionsPiecesTruth IsConsumersGoodsFraudPublic Education Author:Samuel Blumenfeld
“Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.” LittlesBookMillionsPiecesAgentsRelatedExpectingBullshitPublishersMillion Little Pieces Author:James Frey
“The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.” WorldArtMillionsPiecesDollarsCorporationsCrapGalleryMillion DollarsArt World Author:Betty Dodson