“In high school, I used to think it was "like sooooo cool" if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 128 of 303
“The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.”
“They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.”
“The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.”
“So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.”
“I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.”
“Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.”
“Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.”
“There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.”
“It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.”
“When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.”
“Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.”
“We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.”
“He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.”
“We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.”
“The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.”
“But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words.”
“What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?”
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
“The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.”