Quotes 761 till 780 of 1450.
-
Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
-
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
-
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
-
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
-
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
-
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
-
Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.
-
Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
-
Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
-
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
-
Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100 -
Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.
-
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
-
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
-
Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
-
Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
-
Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements.
-
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
All many-colored famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 39)
