The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I don’t want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion.
Everyone grows at their own pace, and you shouldn’t compare yourself to anyone.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own ‘acres of diamonds.’
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous.
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
I once said, ‘We will bury you,’ and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
I have my own batting style and don’t want to be compared with Kohli.
Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
Life prepares you so that you are able to create your own happy ending.
My private life is my own business.
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.
If you don’t believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man’s way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.
Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Kendrick Lamar is 10-times the rapper I am, but I just feel I’m the best at getting my own point across.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will – that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Become aware of your own insufficiency.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people’s families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.
Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.
I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there’s a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.
Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that’s part of what we do in ‘Close Up’, finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
You really don’t need to wear any make-up most of the time; keep your eyebrows the way they are, and find your own natural beauty signature.
Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
We’re our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.
A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting.
I don’t aspire to be like other drivers – I aspire to be unique in my own way.
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.
No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel like a beautiful woman, no matter what!
