Pico Iyer Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.

  Pico Iyer

  Running, Father, Home

  "Writer Pico Iyer". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 17, 2012.

• I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics [2008]. Many Tibetans feel it's their last chance to broadcast their suffering and frustration and pain to the world before the Olympics take place and China is accepted as a modern nation and the world forgets about Tibet.

  Pico Iyer

  Running, Pain, Book

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet's Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

• The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.

  Pico Iyer

  Running, Problem

  "Want to be happy? Slow down". Interview with Guy Raz, ideas.ted.com. January 23, 2015.

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