Baltasar Gracian Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
-
My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
-
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
-
I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
-
It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
-
So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
-
There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
-
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
-
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
-
When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
-
I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
-
My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
-
Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
-
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
-
I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
-
I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.
-
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
-
The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
-
I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
-
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.
-
You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.
-
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
-
Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
-
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
