Hook Quotes

• Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Grace, Bait

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Truth, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.37

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  I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Life, Dream

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• When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

  Joshua Foer

  Firsts, Easier, Fishes

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• Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.

  Robin Williams

  Adventure, Would Be, Bigs

  "Fictional character: Peter Banning". "Hook", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

  Robin Williams

  Philosophy, Thinking, Happy Thoughts

  "Fictional character: Peter Pan". "Hook", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast.
  In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Peter, Doom

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• Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!

  Robin Williams

  Men, Lawyer, Don't Mess With Me

  "Fictional character: Peter Banning". "Hook", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

  Ovid

  Good Luck, Lucky Day, Best Of Luck

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• You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

  Bear Bryant

  Horse, Adversity, Alabama Football

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• You know that place between sleep and awake? The place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you... Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting.

  Julia Roberts

  Dream, Book, Love You

  "Fictional character: Tinkerbell". "Hook", www.imdb.com. December 8, 1991.

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• Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

  Sidney Hook

  Inspirational, Death, Past

  Sidney Hook (2002). “Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom: The Essential Essays”, Pyr Books

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• Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

  Sidney Hook

  Ignorance, Doe, Dogmatism

  Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins

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• Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

  Sidney Hook

  Philosophy, Surveys, Existence

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• Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

  Sidney Hook

  Teacher, Fate, Students

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• Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

  Sidney Hook

  Betrayal, Cost, Alive

  Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

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• Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

  Sidney Hook

  Tolerance, Limits, Tolerate

  Sidney Hook (1975). “Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

  Og Mandino

  Opportunity, Swim, Glimpse

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• Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

  Seth Godin

  Successful, Caring, Winning

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• Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!

  Grant Cardone

  Dream, Giving Up, Target

  Grant Cardone (2011). “The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• I don't think I'd give advice. That never pays off. That's always a bad idea. If they follow your advice and it doesn't work out, or if they don't follow your advice, somehow you're on the hook for it.

  Tracy Letts

  Thinking, Giving, Work Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

  Temple Grandin

  Parenting, Emotional, White

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.

  Anne Lamott

  Decision, Trying, Asking

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.93, Anchor

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• We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

  Ellen Goodman

  Mother, Distance, Father

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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