Rob Hart > Quotes

“In the concert hall of pain, I’ve moved from next to the speakers to the back of the venue.”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“There was once a student who went to his meditation teacher and said, ‘My practice is horrible. I feel distracted. My legs ache. I’m constantly falling asleep.’ And the teacher said, ‘It’ll pass.’ ” I put down the mug. “I’m not one for parables.” She holds up a finger. “Not a parable, but we’ll get to that. So the next week the student went back to the teacher and said, ‘My meditation is wonderful! I’m so peaceful! So alive!’ And do you know what the master said?” “Good for you?” She shakes her head. “It’ll pass.”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“It wasn’t good to mess around with knees. Knees were stupid. Like a ball and two sticks held together with rubber bands. It took way less torque than most people thought to screw up a knee.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“That’s the thing about freedom. It’s yours until you give it up.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“Grace means that all of your mistakes now serve a purpose instead of serving shame. —Brené Brown”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“Cameo leans forward. “Loss is an injury. Like any injury it triggers a pain response. And that pain can be overwhelming. But injuries are supposed to activate a healing response, too. That’s why loss hurts less over time, and one day it’s just a scar. The evidence of it never goes away, but the pain does. Unless it gets infected. And then it doesn’t heal.”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“How do you know that?” I ask. He doesn’t answer. And it’s the same as the other idiots. If it’s true, it runs counter to what he wants, so how could it be true?”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process. —U.S. President Benjamin Harrison, 1891”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me.”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“Just because you’ve decided to stop sinning doesn’t mean you didn’t sin.”
― Rob Hart, The Medusa Protocol

“Pet the bunny closest to the bench.”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“The worst part is, we should have seen it coming. For years we lived with stories about this. Brave New World and 1984 and Fight Club. We celebrated these stories while ignoring the message. And now, how come you can order anything in the world and it’ll show up at your door within a day, but if you try to order a copy of Fahrenheit 451 or The Handmaid’s Tale, it takes weeks, or doesn’t show up at all? It’s because they don’t want us to read these stories anymore. They don’t want us to get ideas. Ideas are dangerous.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“Gibson paused. Turned to her. Gave her another look, up and down. “When elephant trainers catch a baby elephant in the wild, they tie it to a tree. That baby elephant fights and thrashes to break free, but it’s not strong enough. Within a couple of days, it gives up. So even as the elephant gets bigger, it doesn’t believe it can break the rope. And then you get a full-grown elephant tied to a tree with a piece of rope it could snap with a simple swing of its leg. It’s called learned helplessness. Everything here is built on people who don’t think the rope will break. Which means the most dangerous thing in the world for my business model is someone who recognizes how fragile the rope really is.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“The reason humans process pain by inflicting it on others is because it’s a really shitty and childish way of asking for help.” I drop my head. “They want to be seen, but at the same time, they’re terrified of what it is people are going to see.”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“character. “Seven, we humbly ask it to remove those shortcomings. “Eight, we make a list of all persons we have harmed, and become willing to make amends to them all. “Nine, we make direct amends to such people, wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. “Ten, we continue to take a personal inventory, and when we are wrong, promptly admit it.”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“la libertad es tuya hasta que renuncias a ella.”
― Rob Hart, La corporación

“Eleven, we seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our higher power, as we understand it, praying only for knowledge of its will for us and the power to carry that out. “Twelve, having had a spiritual awakening as the result of the steps, we try to carry this message to others like us, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“Welcome to Assassin's Anonymous,' he says. "My name is Kenji, and I am a killer.”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“The balloon burst, everything about him, everything inside just spilling to the floor in one slippery mess. So he turned around and left, went back to Oak, went to his room, fell onto his futon, and stared up at the ceiling. And he thought about the other thing Zinnia had said. The thing about freedom.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us,”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“I know that you took the loneliness you felt as a child and turned it into a way to protect yourself,”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“Mathilda: Is life always this hard, or is it just when you’re a kid? Léon: Always like this. —The Professional”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness,” Kenji says. “Ultimately, it’s not for them. It’s for me.”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“Дело в том, что работу надо заслужить. Работа - не то, что вам дают просто так. Таков американский девиз: стремись к величию сам, а не кричи о том, что у кого-то что-то есть.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“We live in a state of entropy. We buy things because we are falling apart and the newness makes us feel whole. We are addicted to that feeling. That is how Cloud controls us. The worst part is, we should have seen it coming. For years we lived with stories about this. Brave New World and 1984 and Fight Club. We celebrated these stories while ignoring the message. And now, how come you can order anything in the world and it’ll show up at your door within a day, but if you try to order a copy of Fahrenheit 451 or The Handmaid’s Tale, it takes weeks, or it doesn’t show up at all? It’s because they don’t want us to read these stories anymore. They don’t want us to get ideas. Ideas are dangerous.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse

“Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“I'm happy I found an apartment where outside the window is the wide expanse of a roof. That feeling of the breeze, the alchemy of the cigarettes and the alcohol, those together are like a wormhole furrowed through my brain.”
― Rob Hart, City of Rose

“A lot of people will die no matter what.”
“You can make sure it’s the right ones.”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“A friend is someone who sees you. And I see you. I get why you struggle. I do, too. If you didn’t, you’d be a complete sociopath. But in the end, the world needs bad men to keep other bad men from the door.”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“One of the lessons he’d learned in prison was: You don’t look for the handoff. You look for the side-eye. That frightened glance, the tension that builds up in muscles. The badge reflecting off frightened eyes. Prisoners were professionals at subterfuge. You had to become an expert not on seeing the hidden things, but on seeing the people who were doing the hiding.”
― Rob Hart, The Warehouse