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Quotes by American Authors
"Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more."
"I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet."
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
"On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, 'The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.' Dark, she seems to be saying, as in inscrutable, not as in terrible. We often mistake the one for the other. Or we transform the future's unknowability into something certain, the fulfillment of all our dread, the place beyond which there is no way forward. Be again and again, far stranger things happen than the end of the world."
"Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness."
"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise."
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."
"A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One's freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one's own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other."
"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well."
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
"I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself."
"Never mistake activity for achievement."
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
"Requiring accountability while also extending your compassion is not the easiest course of action, but it is the most humane, and, ultimately, the safest for the community."
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
"The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited."
"People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them."
"Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity."
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