Gordon Roddick

FLUENT LOVE

— Gordon Roddick

How much it meant.

— Gordon Roddick

Don’t talk bollocks.

— Gordon Roddick

Passion is not something you can teach.

— Gordon Roddick

It is as much about input – the conversation of imaginative men (women and children not excluded) has a rhythm, a phrase that follows a thought and precedes the development of further thought … try not to be a cunt.

— Gordon Roddick

The great beauty in the English language, innumerable ways of continuing the graphic with explosive, the lyrical, the loving with the spiritual – like dogs nuzzling, cleaning, co-piloting thoughts into the ether of creativity.

— Gordon Roddick

The smug grin of a thought well described, the laughter as others connect with the thought well received, a light of recognition, a delight of recognition switched on, triggered by words.

— Gordon Roddick

In my life, I had no one to disappoint or to let down. Spectres did not haunt me. I very ably created my own prissy set of standards: hesitant, over-polite, submissive. I only became attractive (to myself) when I broke out of that and had bursts of rip-roaring, disgusting behaviour. It was funny and hurt no one.

— Gordon Roddick

Dare to live completely. I dare you.

— Gordon Roddick

Words are very good, but it is actions going forward that count!

— Gordon Roddick

A running theme. There are no rules.

— Gordon Roddick

There was a running theme through my friendships, and it was that of anarchy. I just loved people who were clear and definite in the proposition of life.

— Gordon Roddick

What do you want to do with your life?

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I must always write this way. I must always feel – and deeply.

— Gordon Roddick

If you want to be happy, try never to be negative. As a plan, it is unproductive and does not work.

— Gordon Roddick

Pay no attention to the rules – be anarchic. My definition of anarchy is 'do what you want but don't hurt anyone in the doing’.

— Gordon Roddick

Dreams are nothing if not acted upon and turned into reality.

— Gordon Roddick

From the ability to fail. Not a conscious fear of failure, just terror of everyday life.

— Gordon Roddick

Search out the pretensions, the rubbish, the gloss, the whitewash, the emulsions of life covering the real feeling, real examination, real creativity

— Gordon Roddick

So begins a new process designed to wake up your creative impulse.

— Gordon Roddick

Don't lead a life consumed by triviality. Let others do that.

— Gordon Roddick

Keep fixed on the important things like love, loving and being loved.

— Gordon Roddick

Give service and meditate if you can.

— Gordon Roddick

Only develop friendships with people you admire. I admired people who broke the rules when the rules made no sense!

— Gordon Roddick

Above all, surround yourself with friends who make you laugh, especially if you live with them. When they no longer make you laugh, throw them out and recycle them.

— Gordon Roddick

Contribute. Be bold!

— Gordon Roddick

We are never fucking brave enough.

— Gordon Roddick

Life from the other end.

— Gordon Roddick

Live by your own conventions.

— Gordon Roddick

More symptoms of what my inner engine reveals – nothing ordered, nothing built on logic.

— Gordon Roddick

Saying nothing must be saying something.

— Gordon Roddick

Passion is the master of all disciplines.

— Gordon Roddick

Passion is always attractive.

— Gordon Roddick

Passion is one of the prime motivators and the best in the field of all the various disciplines.

— Gordon Roddick

Build moral integrity where none previously existed. It's not hard to know where to begin. Here. Just light.

— Gordon Roddick