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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Is there life before death?
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
Is there life before death?
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.
Life is consciousness.
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.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
People fail forward to success.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Well done is better than well said.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
People fail forward to success.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
All the world's a cage.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
All movements go too far.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
A smiling face is half the meal.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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.
All movements go too far.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
All movements go too far.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I'd learned my lesson.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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