Wells Quotes - Page 27

• The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grieving, Opposites, Addiction

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• It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

  Virginia Wade

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Retirement, Memories

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• Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

  Leon Trotsky

  Distance, Two, Violence

  Leon Trotsky (1967). “Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence”, New York : Stein and Day

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• One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

  Robert Collier

  Horse, Moving, Two

  Robert Collier (1971). “Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential”

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• First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Intelligent, Past

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• The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it.

  Rajneesh

  Skills, Intelligence, Mind

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• The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.

  Rajneesh

  Yoga, Sleep, Water

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• A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who has no sense of humour, know well that that man has not known at all. If you come across a serious man, then you can be certain that he is a pretender. Knowing brings sincerity but all seriousness disappears. Knowing brings a playfulness; knowing brings a sense of humour. The sense of humour is a must.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Knowing, Serious Man

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• True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear.

  Guy Finley

  Meaningful, Stress, Dark

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• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Prayer, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Power, Men, Hands

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Roots, Hatred, Interest

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• Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Work, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.565, Рипол Классик

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• You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Honesty, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists... Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness... Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

  Michio Kaku

  Honesty, Example, Yeoman

  "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension". Book by Michio Kaku, March 24, 1994.

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• When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

  George Eliot

  Honesty, Law, People

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• I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Inspirational, Sweet, Poison

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106

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• In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Atheism, Facts, Emotion

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• Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.

  Piet Mondrian

  Color, Size, Planes

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• Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust my feeling or capacity to find the right form for something. Even if that is only by being well organized. That too is form.

  Gerhard Richter

  Feelings, Facts, Helping

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

  George Eliot

  Good Luck, Boys, Opportunity

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.205, 谷月社

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• Said I'll make it big when, everybody know me
  Well, I made it big and, everybody phony

  Mac Miller

  Rap, Phony, Made

  Song: Thoughts From A Balcony, Album: Macadelic, 2012

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• Love or hate me, I stay hate free
  They say we learn from mistakes, well, that's why they mistake me

  Lil Wayne

  Hate, Mistake, Rap

  Song: Blunt Blowin, Album: Tha Carter IV

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• If you wanna leave be my guest you can step
  Feelin' irreplaceable listening to Beyonce
  Well, OK, I'll put you out on your bday

  Lil Wayne

  Rap, Listening, Guests

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