Xun Kuang Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
-
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
-
Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
-
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
-
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
-
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
-
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
-
Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
-
I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
-
I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
-
George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
-
You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
-
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
-
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
-
Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
-
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
-
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
-
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
-
Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they don't have one." So if you're of that ilk, yes, you can have your private paradise, but if you're comfortable with government, then go with government.
-
You have to go as hard as you possibly can, or it's going to be weak. Whenever I find myself not committing fully to a character, it's not as funny. It doesn't have that clear point of view, and you find yourself wandering all over the place, whereas committed characters make strong choices that are clear to the audience.
-
When I didn't have friends, I had books.
-
I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.
-
Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.
-
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
