Confucius Quotes
Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.
Quotes to Explore
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
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The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
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How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
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When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
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She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
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The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.
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You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is sensing the edge, the unclear, what you don't recognize, but it is there, the bodily discomfort that the problem makes, which has meaning; it has its own peculiar quality, implicity, it is complex, it has in it everything that relates to that problem, but not in a way you can say.
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I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals.
