“I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 107 of 303
“The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.”
“The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”
“She'll really tell me [what she thinks]. Like today I'm wearing brown suede pants, and she said, 'I don't like your pants.' But then she'll say, `You've got to wear these shoes.' Or 'That's so pretty, Mom. Wear that.' She's got a great eye.”
“You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.”
“Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.”
“I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.”
“The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.”
“You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.”
“Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.”
“It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.”
“The single difference between films for children and films for adults is that in films for children, there is always the option to start again, to create a new beginning. In films for adults, there are no ways to change things. What happened, happened.”
“We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.”
“We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.”
“It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.”
“A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.”
“It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.”
“Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.”
“There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.”
“The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.”