“As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 106 of 303
“I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it”
“You have to be careful when you're getting feedback because people will give you conflicting feedback all the time, but ultimately you end up following your own inner guide.”
“I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings.”
“Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it."”
“Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both.”
“Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.”
“Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.”
“That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.”
“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”
“I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.”
“His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.”
“There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out.”
“Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.”
“Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye”
“Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.”
“Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.”
“Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.”
“Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.”
“Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.”