Anthony Kiedis quote: "I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being."

Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting t...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanti...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your b...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of ...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly H...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive an...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more o...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abuse...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the cultu...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected t...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable ...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Every true artist is at war with the world.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybod...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful less...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

scar tissue that i wish you saw sarcastic Mr. Know-it-all
ANTHONY KIEDIS

An exciting part of our existence right now is [the prospect of] getting to go out and play from 28 ...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

We set out to write 13 songs. But as has been the case every time we've tried to do that, we ended u...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

We'll be releasing more in Spanish. We love the energy that we get out of Latin American audiences.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I wish to f--- that we were putting it out sooner, ... I'm so excited about it and I'm so ready for ...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

That we should make it to the same place and time together again, ... and the fact that we didn't di...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're dis...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I wish to fuck that we were putting it out sooner. I'm so excited about it and I'm so ready for it t...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than de...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear ...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business h...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their percep...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes describ...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my nu...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insan...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around ...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for th...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I wen...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you'r...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the ...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mi...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

It started when we were little kids.
Free spirits, but already
tormented by our own hands<...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to rec...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the res...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you wer...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

There's a peculiar thing that happens every time you get clean. You go through this sensation of reb...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

When you're using drugs, you're driven by this mystical black energy, a force inside you that just w...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t go...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.
ANTHONY KIEDIS

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise re...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz,...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wante...
ANTHONY DAVIS

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
LYSETTE ANTHONY

You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything ...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audie...
ANTHONY BURGESS

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ANTHONY BURGESS

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose...
ANTHONY BURGESS

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectu...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Every dogma has its day.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
ANTHONY BURGESS

I didn't think; I experimented.
ANTHONY BURGESS

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experiment...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use t...
ANTHONY BURGESS

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come fr...
ANTHONY BURGESS

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
CARMELO ANTHONY

If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe,...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is politica...
ANTHONY LEWIS

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
ANTHONY SHADID

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that yo...
PIERS ANTHONY

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs w...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wron...
ANTHONY STORR

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taki...
ANTHONY SHADID

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
ANTHONY BURGESS

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are in...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if no...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of ki...
ANTHONY PETTIS

For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indu...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. ...
ANTHONY WEINER

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a d...
ANTHONY MARRA

Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. T...
ANTHONY RYAN

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are picture...
ANTHONY WEINER

It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a wit...
ANTHONY HECHT

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both th...
ANTHONY MARRA

With oil prices plummeting in late 2015 and early 2016, Gulf states have taken the unusual step of i...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.
ANTHONY FOXX

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, a...
ANTHONY HOLDEN

Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maxim...
ANTHONY PRATT

I'm a businessperson. I'm used to dealing with friction.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

I'll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I'll have an hour just resting, to ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived ...
ANTHONY MARRA

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

You're never too young to die.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber ...
ANTHONY ANDERSON

I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endles...
ANTHONY PRATT

The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as mi...
ANTHONY FAUCI

I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd M...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mum...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
ANTHONY RAPP

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes ea...
ANTHONY TROLOPPE

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn&#...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know,...
ANTHONY HENLEY

As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never ...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
ANTHONY MACKIE

When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I said, 'I can't play Nixon. I'm not an American.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't look like him; I'm Welsh and have a rugby player's build. Burt was long and sinewy, but that...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and a...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

[During one scene in the movie] Proof, ... Night of the Living Dead.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

When I became an actor my dream was ... to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Well, it's mission impossible, Mr. Hunt -- not mission difficult.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The p...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Love yourself every day, and twice on Sunday.
ANTHONY BEAL

On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man...
ANTHONY BEAL

I am a precious evil.
ANTHONY BEAL

My pen is my razor, and I've been bleeding.
ANTHONY BEAL

For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or g...
ANTHONY BEAL

Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which...
ANTHONY BEAL

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
ANTHONY HOPE

I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just ...
CARMELO ANTHONY

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what t...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping i...
ANTHONY MARRA

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are ...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first majo...
ANTHONY FAUCI

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
ANTHONY POWELL

The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to d...
ANTHONY CORLISATRA

The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chain...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something ba...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people w...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you ha...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Action is the foundational key to all success.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find hi...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has pr...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the b...
ANTHONY SAMPSON

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if t...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the...
ANTHONY ATALA

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Personal power is the ability to take action.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure u...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

CANI! - (pronounced kuhn-EYE) stands for Constant And Never-ending Improvement.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything i...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think tha...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective w...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yours...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Ha...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

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I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

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