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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.
Author: Ashleigh
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If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
Author: Italian Proverb
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Pity is treason.
Author: Maximilien Robespierre
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Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
Author: Ojibwa Saying
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It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.
Author: David D. Burns
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Author: Anonymous
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Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.
Author: C. G. Jung
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By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
Author: Robert Cialdini
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It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.
Author: Darryl Somers
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.
Author: Vincent Van Gogh
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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
Author: Sir Edwin Arnold
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The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
Author: Al-nuri
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The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.
Author: Frank M. Garafola
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Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.
Author: Amy Alcott
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Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
Author: Wayne Calloway
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Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Author: Lawrence D. Bell
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Author: Heywood Brown
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
Author: Grace (patricia) Kelly
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A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.
Author: Robert Downey Jr.
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Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
Author: Antoine Arnauld
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Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.
Author: Carol Lewis
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People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.
Author: Gillian Anderson
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Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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No man is free who is not a master of himself.
Author: Epictetus
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Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
Author: Anonymous
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Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.
Author: Lord Thomas Dewar
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You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.
Author: Jennifer Capriati
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The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
Author: Samuel Bowles
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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Author: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.
Author: Napoleon
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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Author: Jerry Seinfeld
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Author: Woody Allen
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.
Author: William S. Burroughs
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I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
Author: Gandhi
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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Author: Kemal Atatürk
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Author: Woody Allen
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To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
Author: Confucius
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