How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Who were these clowns?
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Life is consciousness.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
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.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I stand in awe of my body.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
My friends are my estate.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Never eat more than you can lift.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
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.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
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.
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.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
People fail forward to success.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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