Joseph O'Connor Quotes

• Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Names, Done, Cruelty

  Joseph O'Connor, Random House UK (2004). “Star of the Sea”, p.381, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Work Out, Done, Entrepreneurship

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• Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Learning, Knowledge, Belief

  Joseph O'Connor, Ian McDermott (1997). “The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving”, Thorsons Pub

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• Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Rags, Prejudice, Enmity

  Joseph O'Connor, Random House UK (2004). “Star of the Sea”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Mean, Matter, Creation

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• There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Ambition, Persons

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• Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Morning, Dublin, Pubs

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• I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Business, Debt, Flamingos

  Joseph O'Connor (1994). “The secret world of the Irish male”

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• Everything is in the way the material is composed.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Way, Materials

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• (The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Self, Stories, Form

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• The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Girl, War, School

  Joseph O'Connor (1994). “The secret world of the Irish male”

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