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"Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will not drain your valuable energy with uninspiring attitudes. By developing relationships with those committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, you will have plenty of company on your path to the top of whatever mountain you seek to climb."
"Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you."
"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."
"I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
"I want young people to know there is no age limit to when they can start their own business or when they can become a boss."
"There were no ugly people in Ethiopia"
"The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse."
"Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody."
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it."
"I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots."
"I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives."
"I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with [Humphrey Bogart]."
"Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate."
"Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them."
"A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts."
"Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves."
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
"Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them."
"When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people."
"People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul"
