“Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 99 of 303
“I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago”
“I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis”
“The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.”
“Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.”
“The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.”
“Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.”
“'I don't know' is my favorite position.”
“People become concerned with being more humble than other people.”
“The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.”
“One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.”
“Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.”
“These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.”
“Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.”
“I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.”
“We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.”
“Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?”
“An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.”
“The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.”
“In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.”