“Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 21 of 303
“Be silent in a group of people See what they reveal to you.”
“I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.”
“Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?”
“The heart is a place of secrets.”
“Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.”
“Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.”
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
“I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really formulated something for me, that really was a direct connection to what I experienced in my life. Going to parties and listening to techno at home helped form my musical identity. And that changed throughout my life.”
“The biggest mistake, in general, I've made, is to put too much of a weighting on someone's talent and not enough on their personality. And I've made that mistake several times. I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart, it really does. I've made the mistake of thinking that it's sometimes just about the brain.”
“I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”
“The brain may take advice, but not the heart.”
“Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.”
“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
“I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.”
“Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don't like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.”
“Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.”
“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”
“Speak briefly and to the point.”
“Observe, Remember, Compare.”