Quotes 4461 till 4480 of 6709.
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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
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That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.
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The ''how'' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ''ifs.''
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
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The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.
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The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
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The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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The aims of life are the best defense against death.
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