“The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 161 of 303
“I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.”
“Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!”
“What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.”
“At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.”
“I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D., a professor, and all that, one side of me certainly does respect all disciplines, as long as they don't ossify.”
“Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.”
“I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.”
“It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.”
“It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.”
“It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.”
“Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.”
“I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.”
“Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss.”
“You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon.”
“I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.”
“good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.”
“It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.”
“Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.”
“Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way, and that those details (a thigh mole, a full face flush, a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you.”