“I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 65 of 303
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.”
“We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.”
“Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.”
“It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.”
“Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.”
“The real business of life is trying to understand each other.”
“Sentimentality is unearned emotion.”
“Every sentence is the result of a long probation.”
“Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.”
“You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?”
“Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.”
“In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.”
“Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.”
“When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?”
“The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.”
“Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.”
“I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.”
“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”