Confucius Quotes
I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
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Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.
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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.
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Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
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What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
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It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
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The demand is going to come later and be stretched over an extended period of time.
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All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.
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Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.
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It does not matter how smart you are if nobody knows what you are talking about.
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Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.
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I think the biggest lesson I have learned is not to get too anxious about your work.
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I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.
