Compulsions Quotes

There is more difference in the quality

of our pleasures than in the amount.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because

it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Public sentiment is everything.

With public sentiment,

nothing can fail.

Without it,

nothing can succeed.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation.

Friendship is

one mind in

two bodies.

If you have a garden and a library,

you have everything you need.

The future belongs to the dreamers,

not the critics.

We don’t see things as they are,

we see them as we are.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,

and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern

with no superhuman authority behind it.

We should not look back unless

it is to derive useful lessons from past errors,

and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is

the only guardian of true liberty.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Timing beats speed,

precision beats power.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

The youth need to be enabled

to become job generators

from job seekers.

I fear not the man

who has practiced 10,000 kicks once,

but I fear the man

who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

People will come to love their oppression,

to adore the technologies

that undo their capacities to think.

Standardization is the enemy of innovation.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone

who can do him absolutely no good.