C. Douglas Dillon quotes

C. Douglas Dillon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.”
-- C. Douglas Dillon

#Mind Quotes #Attention Quotes #Body Quotes
“You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.”
-- C. Douglas Dillon

#Thinking Quotes #Understanding Quotes
“Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.”
-- C. Douglas Dillon

#Encounters Quotes #Events Quotes #Infinite Quotes

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”
“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”

Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
“Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them”

Source : A.J Cronin (1942). “the Keys of the Kingdom”
“Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values”
“In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.”
“I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?”
“The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.”

Source : "Q&A: Packers' Aaron Rodgers talks yoga, social media, Super Bowls". Interview with Mike Vandermause, www.usatoday.com. June 12, 2014.
“I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.”
“What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.
“When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.”

You may also like:

Catherine Austin Fitts
Manager
Charles E. Bohlen
Former United States Ambassador to the Philippines
Dean Rusk
Former United States Secretary of State
Edward Kennedy
Former United States Senator
George Ball
Politician
George M. Humphrey
Former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Harlan Cleveland
Diplomat
Ivy Baker Priest
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
Philip D. Reed
Executive
Robert Kennedy
Former U.S. Senator
Robert McNamara
Former United States Secretary of Defense
Robert Rubin
Former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Timothy Geithner
Former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Walter Heller
Economist
Graham T. Allison
Professor
McGeorge Bundy