“When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 221 of 303
“People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.”
“Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.”
“The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]”
“You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.”
“I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.”
“You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.”
“I'm so critical, especially of the movies I do. If the movie flows and I buy it, that's important. Beyond it working, if I buy the character, especially if I'm close to the character.”
“What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?”
“So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.”
“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.”
“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.”
“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”
“The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.”
“In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'”
“It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial.”
“The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.”
“Does management resist the institutional imperative?”
“I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.”
“When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"”