Words matter. These are the best Them Quotes from famous people such as David Hockney, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Charles Baudelaire, Steven Seagal, Joseph Stalin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.
We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven’t had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don’t want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It’s their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.
I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I’m always looking forward to seeing what they’re going to become and what they’re going to be interested in later in life.
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
America is dumb. It’s like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you – aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I’d like them to see America as a toy – a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out.
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
The process of editing is what I enjoy most – putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Anyone can be a DJ but it’s understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio – all that noise, that artifice.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.
Every man’s heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.
There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Things present themselves to you, and it’s how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don’t we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it’s your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
I’ve been very fortunate to have good people in my life, and when you find good people, you gotta hold onto them real tight.
Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
I learned that life is filled with ups and downs and it’s just about how you react to them.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.
Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy.
Let them eat cake.
You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
A cardio workout increases blood flow and acts as a filter system. It brings nutrients like oxygen, protein, and iron to the muscles that you’ve been training and helps them recover faster.
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleased with what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don’t do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don’t have to manage them.
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn’t change any of them.
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
I get a ton of scam emails. But instead of deleting them, I decided to hit reply.
What I’ve enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn – I love it!
We don’t do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.
I’ve made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
I absolutely adore cows. They’re the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.
Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it’s an honor. It’s just an honor to be a comedian.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
I’m Machiavelli’s offspring, I’m the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed – the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them.
As long as somebody ‘CTC,’ at the end of the day I’m with them. For all you that don’t know what CTC means, that’s ‘Cut The Check.’
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
My target is winning trophies. It doesn’t matter which kind of trophy it is, I want to win all of them.
We live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
I have to ask Allah’s forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it’s not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
A tailor is a person’s best friend as far as I’m concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
NBC had a show called ‘The Toughest Bouncer in America’ that I did. But I told them I didn’t like that term, ‘bouncer.’ To me, it’s offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don’t see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
I’m not interested in how people move, but what moves them.
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people’s life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
Eagles don’t flock, you have to find them one at a time.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
Different people have different opinions, and it’s okay to respect all of them.
I wasn’t really too hyped on religion. I don’t really believe in a religion like that. I just believe that there is a God. There’s just somebody up there that listens to me, and they can show me better if I talk to them and build a relationship with them.
Life is short but love your loved ones. Love them, kiss them every day because you don’t know what’s going to happen.
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
People know if you care about them. How do you show people that you care? By caring for them. By putting their needs first. By sacrificing for them. By serving them. Do that, and you’ll build a great team.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what’s the point in life?
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
I lived next to Russian soldiers. We had Russian army guys in our house when I grew up. We made lemonade for them; they were everywhere. I had a Russian school. I grew up with Russian traditions, I know Russian songs… it infiltrates me a lot. I even speak a little Russian.
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat – or mistreat – them determines how long your doors stay open.
Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
The eyes are so telling. That’s how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.
It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
Only those who have the courage to take a penalty miss them.
The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us – loneliness is one of them.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That’s pretty much my principle.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean ’em inside and outside. I’m very touchy about cars. I don’t want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
A rising tide doesn’t raise people who don’t have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.
Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
When I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.
One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don’t know the stories, I make them up.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!’
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
I know only two tunes: one of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’, and the other isn’t.
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that’s present.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‘outside the box,’ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it – in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them – that’s huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.
If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them, that’s the mark of a great player.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that’s not comfortable for the average person.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them… I consider myself a student of cinema. It’s almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
To lead people walk behind them.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.
The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won’t start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won’t start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
If you are curious, you’ll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.
God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later.
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you’re friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Let them hate so long as they fear.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak ‘job interview.’
Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.
Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.
Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry – just making them feel – is paramount to me.
I have my flaws, but I embrace them and I love them because they’re mine.
‘Pretty Lady’ is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.
The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
I love fast cars… and to go too fast in them.
There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
What’s cool is when you’re able to give your audience imagination and you don’t have to cage them in like animals.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves.
We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Sometimes a villain is very quiet – it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
I like to be funny. I can’t stay all the time focused, disciplined, controlled. Behaviour like that is impossible. If the players are too nervous before a game, I have to relax them, calm them.
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
I’m obsessed with the power of music and image together. There’s also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous – there’s a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don’t really see in movies in the same way.
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
I don’t want to start producing dressing gowns and cuff links with the Purdey name stamped on them. Making Purdey the leading gunmaker is our priority. Once we have succeeded in doing that, then we might look at some accessories, but it is a long haul.
I know who I am. I am not perfect. I’m not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I’m one of them.
We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they’ll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.
I’m a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God’s greatest creations, I really do. They’re interesting and intriguing.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.
Exceed your customer’s expectations. If you do, they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want – and a little more.
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see… Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No – we will not do that.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
I’m not perfect; I make mistakes all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
I am lucky that my in-laws are incredibly special people and I love them dearly. My father-in-law is an extraordinary man and my mom-in-law a beautiful and brave woman.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.
The human voice: It’s the instrument we all play. It’s the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It’s the only one that can start a war or say ‘I love you.’ And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don’t listen to them.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, won’t you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God’s ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.
Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.
I’ve thrown away lots of my old diaries – you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it’s not a good idea to bring them into the world.
The best thing is to accept the circumstances, not take them personally, deal with them, stop complaining, and give everything your best.
Employees are a company’s greatest asset – they’re your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company’s mission.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
I didn’t discover curves; I only uncovered them.
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don’t imagine, it will never happen.
Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.
Nobody’s all good or bad, and nobody’s all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what’s keeping my head above the water.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they’re not just lying around on the surface.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there’s always something beautiful that you can find.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear – when you are the hammer, strike.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.
I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Leave them wanting more and you know they’ll call you back.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn’t turn out very well – you go, ‘Why did you do that?’ But in the end, I can’t regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
I woke up one day and thought, ‘Enough is enough with bullying myself.’ The war is within you, and that’s also where it’s won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.
It’s okay for me to make jokes about disabled people and people with horrible diseases because they make me uncomfortable, and I don’t want to be like them.
No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It’s not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.
One finds limits by pushing them.
There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.
Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Coral reefs represent some of the world’s most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea’s most exquisite species will not survive.
Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.
Spaghetti… I can’t eat spaghetti, there’s too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I’ll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Men are what their mothers made them.
I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.
That’s the thing about awards – it’s for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
We think, each of us, that we’re much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it’s the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we’ve already made the decision.
Nostalgia is one thing. It’s great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.
I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you’re going to do with your life. I tell kids that it’s a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it’s up to them to decide which way to bend.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
I think I’ve shown the world I’m a fierce competitor, yes. But I’ve also shown them that I’m a fierce human being.
True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don’t have a Facebook page. I don’t use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don’t use them.
There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn’t be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won’t come in.
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.
‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it’s the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it’s just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.
The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin’ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
I don’t think that one moment in people’s life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.
I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer – it’s really strong. We’re deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I’m very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.
I’ve been blessed to have a lot of mentors in my life that just have been good people and hard workers. Jae Crowder is one of them; Jimmy Butler is one of them.
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person – not just an employee – are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
A career is like a house: it’s made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
Vision 2030 is about a lot of big opportunities, so Aramco is one of them, Neom another opportunity.
Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it’s really easy to look at someone else’s life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Economics is not an exact science. It’s a combination of an art and elements of science. And that’s almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we’re improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
You can’t win them all.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
