Compulsions Quotes

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to

sit quietly in a room alone.

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You're on your own,

and you know what you know.

And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You didn’t come into this world.

You came out of it,

like a wave from the ocean.

Bad times have a scientific value.

These are occasions a good,

learner would not miss.

I’m not afraid of death;

I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man.

The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Every individual matters.

Every individual has a role to play.

George Washington, as a boy,

was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth.

He could not even lie.

Without revolutionary theory

there can be no revolutionary movement.

Management is about persuading people

to do things they do not want to do,

while leadership is about inspiring people

to do things they never thought they could do.

I am persuaded,

you will permit me to observe,

that the path of true piety,

is so plain as to require,

but little political direction.

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country

and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Love is the attempt to

form a friendship

inspired by beauty.

I always say that the

times in my life

when I've been happiest

are the times when

I've seen, like, a sunset.

Soul music is about feeling

it’s about what’s inside.

I never did anything by accident,

nor did any of my inventions come by accident;

they came by work.

I don’t like losers.