James Altucher Quotes
I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
-
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
-
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
-
When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
-
When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
-
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
-
Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
-
We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
-
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
-
Lunch was my favorite part at school.
-
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
-
Should guilty seek asylum here,Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin. Should a sinner make his way to this mansion, All his past sins are to be washed away. The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs; And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes. In this world this edifice Taj Mahal has been made; To display thereby the creator's glory.
-
The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
-
Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.
-
The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
-
From Castruccio
-
The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.
-
I believe in commitment to duty. That's how I've lived my life.
-
It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
-
We soothe newborns, but parents soon start teaching their children to tolerate higher levels of arousal, a job that is often assigned to fathers. (I once heard the psychologist John Gottman say, “Mothers stroke, and fathers poke.”) Learning how to manage arousal is a key life skill, and parents must do it for babies before babies can do it for themselves. If that gnawing sensation in his belly makes a baby cry, the breast or bottle arrives. If he’s scared, someone holds and rocks him until he calms down. If his bowels erupt, someone comes to make him clean and dry. Associating intense sensations with safety, comfort, and mastery is the foundation of self-regulation, self-soothing, and self-nurture, a theme to which I return throughout this book.
-
I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.
