Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
My friends are my estate.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Is there life before death?
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
My head rang like a gong.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
I didn't even breathe.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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