“Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 159 of 303
“The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.”
“No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.”
“Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.”
“It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.”
“We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.”
“...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.”
“Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.”
“How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.”
“If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.”
“Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.”
“I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.”
“Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.”
“It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.”
“One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.”
“Everyone is not your customer.”
“My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.”
“It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.”
“It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.”
“I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.”