“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 3 of 303
“Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things”
“Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.”
“Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had”
“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
“Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.”
“Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.”
“An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.”
“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
“Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.”
“Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.”
“This rule is so underrated: Keep your family and business completely separated.”
“Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.”
“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
“One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city”
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”