Ben Lerner Quotes

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.

Ben Lerner

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• Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Passion

• Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

  

  Michael Peter Balzary Atoms for Peace
  • Chaos
  • Take
  • Worth

• Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Fear
  • Nothing
  • Losing

• We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • Political
  • Government

• I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Stories

• God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • True
  • Religion

• Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • May
  • Small
  • Control

• Laughter always forgives.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Laughter

• I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Seems

• Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Giving
  • Choices
  • Rich

• Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That’s right, with your college diploma you now have a crushing advantage over 8 percent of the workforce. I'm talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Age
  • Today
  • College

• Those who don’t have a dream, it’s okay, it’s okay if you don’t have a dream. You just have to be happy.

  

  Suga BTS
  • Happy
  • Dream

• I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I love the impatience of New York... You ever had somebody not ask you for directions, but demand them? You're just innocently walking down the street, you hear a horn, all of a sudden some guy's like, 'HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!' ...You know, like you were supposed to fax this guy directions. Suddenly, you're wasting HIS time.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Space
  • Useful
  • Vessel

• Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Why
  • Learn
  • Ahead

• It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Get angry

• I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Machine
  • Prose
  • Directionality