Quotes 721 till 740 of 1083.
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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
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Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
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Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
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T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
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Take notes on the spot: a note is worth a cartload of recollection.
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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting - intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
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Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.
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That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.
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That what we have, we prize not to the worth
whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
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The ''self-image'' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
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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 American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
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