“Above all have respect for yourself.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 82 of 303
“One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.”
“If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.”
“This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.”
“Reason gains all people by compelling none.”
“Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.”
“There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.”
“He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.”
“The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.”
“People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.”
“I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It's something we have in our power to do. It reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
“Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.”
“The wavering mind is but a base possession.”
“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
“There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.”
“Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.”
“I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work.”
“Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.”
“I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.”
“Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.”