Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
-
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
-
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
-
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
-
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
-
My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
-
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
-
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
-
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
-
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
-
Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
-
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
-
Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
-
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
-
While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
-
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
-
I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.
-
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
-
Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time.
-
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
-
Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.
-
So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.
-
With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?
-
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
