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

  

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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 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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• 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.

  

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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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• As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.

  

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• What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

  

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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