“I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 98 of 303
“In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.”
“In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.”
“The best things carried to excess are wrong.”
“The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.”
“We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.”
“Unrelated doesn't necessarily mean unrelated. Allow ideas to dwell with one another.”
“I mean no disrespect to anything I did before.”
“It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!”
“The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.”
“This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be?”
“They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.”
“Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.”
“DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.”
“It seems to me that the most fundamental mistake most parents make with children is to expect them to be grateful. Children are never grateful. ... The 'sacrifices' you made were not for them, they were for you.”
“I instinctively live. I do what I do. A lot of people live off of logic rather than emotions. I just live off of emotion.”
“Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.”
“When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'”
“Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.”
“I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)”