Browsing Quotes With Tag: individualism (45)
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Make your mission yours.
Speaker: Sora HillPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Strive to be the perfect you, not the perfect someone else.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Recognize that enduring happiness comes from what you are, not from what you have.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ed said
When man found the mirror
They began to lose their souls.
He point, of course, is that
They began to concern themselves
With their images rather than
Their selves.
Other men’s eyes are mirrors
But the most distorting kind
For, if you look to them, you can only see
Reflections of your reflections,
Your warpings of their warpings.Speaker: Stan HermanSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are exhausted far more from the tension of internal disharmony – not doing what we know we should – than from hard, unremitting work. And, naturally, the very effort to escape such tension – pleasure-seeking, self-indulgence, escapism – produces more tension.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True love is found in the affirmation of another person’s identity and stewardship, in seeking his or her growth and good, not in interpreting all the other person’s responses in terms of one’s own needs, hungers, or desires.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Often [friend-centeredness] results, finally, in his losing the very thing desired, as he strives to become all things to all people. He ends up becoming nothing to everyone, including himself.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Each person sees the world not as it is but as he or she is. When he opens his mouth to describe what he sees, he in effect describes himself, that is, his perception.
That does not mean that there are no facts… But each person’s interpretation of these facts represents his prior experiences, and the facts have no meaning whatsoever apart from his interpretation.Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If I were to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can’t a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
Speaker: Walter RaleighPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there had never been anything just like it before, and never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put us all in the same mold. But, I say, don’t let that spark be lost; it’s your only real claim to importance.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There was this one part where the main character, who is this architect, is sitting on a boat with his best friend, who is a newspaper tycoon. And the newspaper tycoon says that the architect is a very cold man. The architect replies that if the boat were sinking, and there was only room in the lifeboat for one person, he would gladly give up his life for the newspaper tycoon. And then he says something like this…
“I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.”
Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people “participate.” I’m not really certain. Because I don’t know if I would mind living for Sam for a while.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What was there to laugh at? Not much, really, unless you were the kind of person who was on a permanent lookout for something to laugh at. Unfortunately, that was exactly the kind of person most kids were, in his experience. They patrolled up and down school corridors like sharks, except that what they were on the lookout for wasn’t flesh but the wrong trousers, or the wrong haircut, or the wrong sneakers, any or all of which sent them wild with excitement.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: About a BoyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
Speaker: Alan AldaPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole load of averageness into one compact frame. I’d say that there were millions like me, but there aren’t, really: lots of blokes have impeccable music taste but don’t read, lots of blokes read but are really fat, lots of blokes are sympathetic to feminism but have stupid beards, lots of blokes have a Woody Allen sense of humor but look like Woody Allen. Lots of blokes drink too much, lots of blokes behave stupidly when they drive cars, lots of blokes get into fights, or show off about money, or take drugs. I don’t do any of these things, really; if I do OK with women, it’s not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don’t have.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we’re so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they’re not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. Maybe not out loud, if it’s going to get you into trouble: “I wish I’d never married him.” “I wish she was still alive.” “I wish I’d never had kids with her.” “I wish I had a whole shitload of money.” “I wish all the Albanians would go back to fucking Albania.” Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it’ll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you’re living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies just for one minute.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
But I was alone, and for two reasons. The mafia was theirs, not mine. For them, the organization always came first. But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia; to the brothers, not the brotherhood. I worked for the mafia, but I didn’t join it. I’m not a joiner. I never found a club or clan or idea that was more important to me than the men and women who believed in it.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!