“Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 35 of 303
“It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.”
“Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.”
“The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.”
“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”
“In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.”
“There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.”
“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."”
“I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.”
“You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.”
“Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.”
“Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
“A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.”
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
“I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.”
“When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.”
“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”