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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• 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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• 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.

  

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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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• There's a crowd of people harbored in every person, there are so many roles that we play.And you've decided to love me for eternity. I'm still deciding who I want to be today'

  

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• Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

  

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• Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.

  

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• Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

  

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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
  • Possession