Quotes 21 till 40 of 44.
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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.
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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying ''It got lost,'' and say, ''I lost it.''
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