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Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.
We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.
I like Ben Stein. I think he's funny, creative, and an insightful commentator on a host of issues.
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.
Our conversations on 'The Herd' are irreverent, insightful and original. That's a great combination.
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
We've got some Democrats who are actually Tea Partiers right now. We need to build coalitions with them.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.
In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.
I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.
Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.
Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.
The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
As soon as I saw 'Chinglish' on Broadway, I began to envision this smart and insightful cross-cultural comedy as a film.
When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.
A masterfully written text for the M&A student and professional: clear, concise, comprehensive, practical, and insightful.
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
As you've noticed people don't want to be sold. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.
It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.