If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinI have no human feelings.
Karl LagerfeldI don’t have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.
Dolly PartonThe part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It’s an unfortunate parallel to human behavior – they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.
Jane GoodallIt is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.
Robert GreeneBears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
Karl LagerfeldThe advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar WildeHuman beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.
Paul AusterThe Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.
Frank OceanI’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.
Margaret AtwoodWhen I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.
Ernest HemingwayThe brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert FrostLanguage is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
Noam ChomskyWhenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar WildePeople react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.
Richard M. NixonThere is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.
Jocko WillinkMere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
Haruki MurakamiWorking out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas AdamsArt was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
David BowieAll cruelty springs from weakness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
Kurt VonnegutYou entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.
Bob MarleyEach morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador DaliI don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
Richard P. FeynmanIt’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?
Jocko WillinkAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam ChomskyI have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Nelson MandelaWhat the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.
Alice WalkerAll these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.
Albert EinsteinHumans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.
Robert GreeneCircumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Benjamin DisraeliThe quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous HuxleyFor me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.
Dwayne JohnsonI do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
Noam ChomskyYou have a nice personality, but not for a human being.
Henny YoungmanMan will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark TwainThe chimpanzee study was – well, it’s still going on, and I think it’s taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we’re simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.
Jane GoodallAction is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma GandhiI get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘
Mr. TBut does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.
Jane GoodallWhat nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
Anthony BourdainI believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
Abraham LincolnThe more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace ThackerayYou either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
Brian EnoSome mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
Dalai LamaMy theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.
Jerry SeinfeldWe must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. RooseveltReligions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand RussellI get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.
Kurt VonnegutTake care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Jim RohnOne may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. MenckenIt seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.
John MuirTraining and resting takes up most of my time.
Sunil ChhetriI wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.
DrakeThe happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel JohnsonSometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.
Tom BradyIt seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinGet up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
Joan of Arc