William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes

See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.

William Dean Howells

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• Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

  

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

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• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

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• I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

  

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• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

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• And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

  

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• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

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• In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.

  

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• Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

  

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• If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

  

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• Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

  

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  

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• There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.

  

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• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  

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• It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

  

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• I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

  

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• Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.

  

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• There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men.

  

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• I think more civil society programs, more free enterprise, more contacts with their fellow brethren in Miami - that's good for the long-term, and that's an investment in America's long-term relationship with the Cuban people, not the Cuban government.

  

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• I don't know whether I like this planet or not. But I have to accept it.

  

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• See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Today
  • Achievement
  • Confusion