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All Quotes Collection
"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."
41
"By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."
48
"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."
128
"Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves."
61
"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."
47
"Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss."
45
"In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn."
41
"A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him."
52
"Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause."
41
"The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness."
46
"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother."
44
"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior."
46
"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."
52
"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not."
56
"Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types."
38
"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year."
47
"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems."
192
"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."
50
"When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance."
231
"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small."
41
"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school."
42
"But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both."
52
"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion."
40
"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour."
45
"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods."
58
"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour."
50
"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
56
"It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country."
44
"I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations."
35
"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment."
34
"It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment."
38
"Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field."
29
"Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare."
36
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