“Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 49 of 303
“As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.”
“I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
“It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.”
“At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.”
“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.”
“Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game”
“Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.”
“... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.”
“You should not take your intuitions at face value.”
“Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.”
“All that we can't say is all we need to hear.”
“I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.”
“I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.”
“Look twice before you leap.”
“One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”
“Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.”
“I think people are universal.”
“Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.”
“It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”