The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.
Samuel Johnson
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.
Joseph Lancaster
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
James Broughton
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
William Empson
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
Nate Ruess
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. Skinner
Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.
Rush Limbaugh
Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.
Michael Jordan
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
Regina Spektor
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.
David Walliams
No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
Jonathan Sacks
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Grace Paley
But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
Tony Blair
And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
Feist
I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.
Noomi Rapace
All diseases run into one. Old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
Arne Jacobsen
There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here.
When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'
Kellan Lutz
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.
Max Greenfield
Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
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