Doe Quotes - Page 120

The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.

An organizer is a leader who does not lead but gets behind the people and pushes.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it does take a lot out of you and is incredibly stressful.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

This can be one of cheerfulness or gloom because color which is so inexpensive, is what does the trick. Not color alone but color plus imaginative lighting and cleverly grouping of the furniture. You say you have an old lobby that nothing much can be done with? Oh yes it can!

People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.

A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We lived like apes!

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.