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Quotes by Writer
"A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate."
112
"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."
110
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."
109
"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."
109
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
109
"The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing."
109
"I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die."
107
"What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in."
106
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."
100
"Don't ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why are you allowing it to happen."
99
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
Work,
99
"Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken."
99
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
98
"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."
98
"To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody."
97
"I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
96
"Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues."
96
"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
96
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
96
"In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory, the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting."
96
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
95
"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
95
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
95
"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."
94
"Positive results will come when you start to replace your negative thoughts and habits with positive ones."
92
"Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done."
92
"I never, even for a moment, doubted what they'd told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt's complete absence. They have forgotten."
92
"If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer."
91
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