Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
-
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
-
I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
-
Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
-
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
-
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
-
Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
-
Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
-
I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
-
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
-
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
-
Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
-
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
-
My literary success meant nothing to me.
-
I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
-
The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
-
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
-
Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
-
Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
-
We create an image of happiness and success and then we are beholden to it. We tell ourselves stories and sometimes these stories become so strong as to imprison us. Breaking free from our personal fortresses is a long, hard journey, but ultimately what allows one to grow.
-
I know from experience it's very hard to get access to a prison to take pictures.
-
Television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.
-
We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.
-
Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
