William Stanley Jevons Quotes
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.
William Stanley Jevons
Quotes to Explore
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I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
Patrice Leconte
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Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
Pablo Picasso
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Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
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In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
Ben Affleck
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Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.
Madeleine de Souvre
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Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
Earl Nightingale
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We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.
Dalai Lama
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
Henry Ward Beecher
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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
Plato
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A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.
William Shakespeare
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
Saad Hariri
