Albert Einstein Quotes
I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.
Quotes to Explore
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.
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There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
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Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.
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After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
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I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'
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I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.
