Dale Carnegie Quotes
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
-
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
-
Country music is three chords and the truth.
-
It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
-
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
-
So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
-
My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
-
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
-
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
-
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
-
I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.
-
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
-
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
-
It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
-
Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
-
I don't use emojis. I go vintage.
-
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.
-
When prices are stable, people can hold money for transactions and other purposes without having to worry that inflation will eat away at the real value of their money balances.
-
It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.
-
I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.
-
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
