Thomas Harris Quotes
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.Thomas Harris
Quotes to Explore
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You should seek approval from yourself.
Ichiro Suzuki -
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
J. M. Coetzee -
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall -
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
Naomi Wolf -
Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
Aberjhani -
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
Nat King Cole
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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.
Mallory Ortberg -
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. Mencken -
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
Fred Barnes -
There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
Philip Kerr -
We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
Jacqueline Carey
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht -
Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.
John Bytheway -
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Billy Sunday -
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
James Allen -
When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.
Jacques Maritain -
Sharpe wanted to be liked by the men under his command. He was tempted to believe that if he was friendly and approachable, reasonable and kind, then his men would follow him more willingly. But kindness was not the wellspring of loyalty and he knew the temptation had to be resisted.
Bernard Cornwell
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Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
Aloe Blacc -
I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.
Rachel Caine -
That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.
Steve Carlton -
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
Thomas Harris