Paul Simon Quotes

You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

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• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Movie
  • I Love
  • Premiere

• It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Desire
  • Common

• If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Jesus
  • Amazed

• Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Life
  • Living
  • Safe

• Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Work
  • May
  • Fear

• What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Real
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Men
  • War
  • Evil

• A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.

  

  Oenomaus
  • Life
  • Men
  • Fighting

• I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• After it is said and done about who does what on the Batman assembly line, I do not underestimate all of the help I've received.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Done
  • Help
  • Said

• I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Soul
  • BlackBerry pie

• Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Skills
  • Degrees

• A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Working
  • Tongue
  • Perhaps

• Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

  

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull
  • Men
  • Corruption
  • Trapped

• I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • History
  • Amazing
  • Idea

• You may think that Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and BigGovernment-dot-com were fighting against an enemy, and the enemy was ACORN, but I do not think that's the case at all. I think the enemy they were fighting against are the media. By not covering the story, not at all ... Breitbart showed that the media is no longer merely biased. They're no longer even ignoring the news. The mainstream media is now in the news suppression business.

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Business
  • Think
  • Government

• This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Book
  • Technology
  • Complement

• You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Fingers
  • Piece
  • Cultivate