“Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 67 of 303
“Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.”
“What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.”
“I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.”
“When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.”
“Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.”
“I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.”
“Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.”
“Every man has got to know his limitations.”
“We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.”
“We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bigger than you think. More complicated than you think.”
“There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.”
“Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.”
“The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.”
“A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.”
“Wasn't making any great connection Wasn't falling for any intricate scheme Nothing that would pass inspection Just thinking of a series of dreams”
“Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.”
“In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.”
“You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.”
“When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.”