Stephen Hawkins Quotes

New Hampshire newsman with a passion for the arcane christened the killer Springheel Jack, after the infamous Dr. John Hawkins of Bristol, who did five of his wives to death with odd pharmaceutical knickknacks.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.

She even told me how to treat a girl on a date, which was very interesting. She said that with a girl like Mary Elizabeth, you shouldn't tell her she looks pretty. You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't. She also said that with some girls, you should do things like open car doors and buy flowers, but with Mary Elizabeth (especially since it's the Sadie Hawkins' dance), I shouldn't do that. So, I asked her what I should do, and she said that I should ask a lot of questions and not mind when Mary Elizabeth doesn't stop talking. I said that it didn't sound very democratic, but Sam said she does it all the time with boys.

If intrinsic motivation is high, if we are passionate about what we are doing, creativity will flow. External expectations and rewards can kill intrinsic motivation and thus kill creativity. When intrinsic motivation drops off, so does our willingness to explore new avenues and different ideas, something that is crucial at the Intersection. This means that in order to stay motivated and execute an intersectional idea, as did Prothrow-Stith and Hawkins and Dubinsky, we must be careful of explicit, external rewards. Stephen King puts it this way: “Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.”14

Even great men like Gandhi and Stephen Hawkins and others throughout history have had to contradict themselves because increased knowledge has shown their old and true concepts to be old and untrue. Much of the war going on throughout the world now is being fought by two sides that both believe, categorically and without question, that they are right and their opposition wrong. Their growth to a newer truth is jammed by anger and fear and many deaths and personal losses will result before they are liberated and a new paradigm is born.

parenting and caretaking were so much harder than she’d thought they would be. No one had explained to her that she’d be constantly worried, her imagination churning out worst-case scenarios with devastating details as if she’d suddenly become Stephen King’s muse.