Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.
Bill HicksRead
The Voice of Reason is in us all...and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.
Interpretation
The voice of reason is an innate understanding that guides everyone towards beneficial choices.
In this quote, Bill Hicks emphasizes that within each person resides a voice of reason that is universally recognizable. This voice seeks logical and sensible solutions, leading to outcomes that benefit everyone equally, highlighting our shared capacity for rational thought and collective well-being.
In practice
During a team meeting to resolve conflicts, one could quote Hicks to emphasize the importance of logical discussion.
Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.
I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about eighty kids would pull up: 'STRATFORD SUCKS!' Am I supposed to run after these guys? I'd just stand there, you know. They'd back up. 'STRATFORD SUCKS! ...STRATFORD SUCKS!' I'd say, 'I know. I go there. You're wasting gas, man.
I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'
Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake.
To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.
What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.
Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus - your abdominal brain - and is brought into your world as a reality.
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
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