Use Quotes - Page 214

I am very competitive, so when I fail I use what I learned from that mishap to fuel success.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say "No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing."

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

I can't ever give up, because I can't ever leave my daughters.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.

When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.

Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).

Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers, everywhere, in the kitchen. Everywhere, I have wills because I write wills more easily than I write love letters.

I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

She lets him see how afraid she is to be without him and he soon comes to feel as though he has a 100 percent hold on her. This is often the point when women begin to complain: “He doesn’t make enough time for me. He isn’t as romantic as he used to be.