Mean Quotes

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don’t respect you. They consider that you’re not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.

I know that’s a little jarring, coming from a Weatherman, but what I mean by being humble is doubting if your action did anything. So you have to open your eyes, act and doubt. And then you have to repeat for a lifetime.

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Netflix, Amazon, iTunes – whatever platforms emerge – we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business.

Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn’t that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.

When you say “paying the banks,” what they really mean is paying the bank bondholders. They are basically the One Percent.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you’re not writing a song, it’s like that.

They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.