Things Quotes

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Do all things with love.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.