I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.
Frank OceanHiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Franz KafkaTelling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. LewisEvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will RogersIt is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
Mark TwainBefore I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.
Stephen HawkingTo the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
VoltaireDon’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.
Albert CamusThe U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
Noam ChomskyThe safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
VoltaireIt’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.
Robert KiyosakiI seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
Margaret ThatcherAs I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.
Colin PowellEven if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.
Taylor SwiftThe fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand RussellThose who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin FranklinInstead of judging people, we need to pray.
Joyce MeyerThe artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert CamusI have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
PlatoLeadership is a choice, not a position.
Stephen CoveyIn all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand RussellMy dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.
Robert KiyosakiSeek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel KantThinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
Eckhart TolleNo sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac AsimovCuriosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven WrightIt amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
David BowieWhat do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma GandhiWhen I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.
George W. BushLife is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel JohnsonA woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph AddisonIt is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Queen Elizabeth IIThere is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin DisraeliYou’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard ShawA president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.
Henry KissingerTradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.
Kanye WestTo hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.
Robert GreeneLook at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
Dalai LamaPeople do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen KellerA true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph AddisonI bought a gun and chose drugs instead.
Kurt CobainFor, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas CarlyleEvery mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
Lou HoltzI’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
Michelle ObamaNothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich NietzscheFaith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma GandhiThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas JeffersonThose who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Friedrich NietzscheThe United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
Nelson MandelaWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil GibranI don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.
Barack ObamaIt’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.
Nipsey HussleStupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert CamusCompromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThose who know how to think need no teachers.
Mahatma GandhiA great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William JamesI don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.
Lando Norris