Steven Harrison quotes

That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything.
-- Steven Harrison

#Lost Everything #Transformation #Understatement

We have misunderstood our confusion when we think there is an answer to it. The confusion is not a result of questions that are too hard, but rather a questioner who is disintegrating. Confusion is the introduction to true intelligence.
-- Steven Harrison

#Thinking #Confusion #Misunderstood

We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world.
-- Steven Harrison

#Enlightenment #Identity #World

Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better.
-- Steven Harrison

#Feelings #Sitting #Arguing

We idealize the transformative life into a life of power, of extraordinary experience, of deep realization. It is none of these things; rather it is a life that is without a trace, a life as it actually is, which is without me.
-- Steven Harrison

#Realization #Extraordinary #Without A Trace

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on sueing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.

I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything.

Muffled lives explode in understatements.