Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Quotes about the trip
page 9
“Facing it — always facing it — that's the way to get through.”
Joseph Conrad
book
Typhoon
Typhoon (1902), Ch. 5
“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”
Diane Arbus
(1923–1971) American photographer and author
Source: Diane Arbus: Revelations
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
i.17-26
Paradise Lost (1667)
Context: And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert th' Eternal Providence,
And justifie the wayes of God to men.
“I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.”
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“Something wicked this way comes”
Variant: By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Source: Macbeth
“Understanding is a two-way street.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
As quoted in Modern Quotations for Ready Reference (1947) by Arthur Richmond, p. 455
Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
John Muir
(1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
July 1890, page 313
John of the Mountains, 1938
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Jimmy Carter
(1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
Aristotle
(-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Source: ARISTOTLE, The Nicomachean Ethics
“I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.”
Stephen Fry
(1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Marcel Duchamp
(1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
1951 - 1968, The Creative Act', 1957
Context: I want to clarify our understanding of the word 'art' – to be sure, without an attempt to a definition. What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion.
Therefore, when I refer to 'art coefficient', it will be understood that I refer not only to great art, but I am trying to describe the subjective mechanism which produces art in a raw state – 'à l'état brute' – bad, good or indifferent.
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
Alice Walker
(1944) American author and activist
As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 173.
Anne Frank
(1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Jonathan Larson
(1960–1996) American composer and playwright
Source: Rent (1996)
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Variant translation: In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history" — yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened.
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Context: Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.
Janette Rallison
(1966) American writer
Source: My Double Life
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
Maurice Sendak
(1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
Zig Ziglar
(1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Source: Something to Smile about: Encouragement and Inspiration for Life's Ups and Downs
“The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves”
Source: The Grand Design
Source: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
“There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "yes" you know he is a crook.”
Groucho Marx
(1890–1977) American comedian
Megan McDonald
(1959) American children's literature author
Source: The Sisters Club
Variant: To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 22.
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Algernon, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
Source: The Fifth Elephant
“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.”
Benjamin Disraeli
(1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
(1943) Italian writer and archaeologist
Source: Alexander: Child of a Dream
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Ernest Hemingway
(1899–1961) American author and journalist
E.L. Doctorow
(1931–2015) novelist, editor, professor
On his writing style
Interview in Writers at Work (1988)
Variant: Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Source: Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews
Paladin of the Lost Hour (1985)
“There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.”
Source: The Zürau Aphorisms
Frank E. Peretti
book
Monster
Source: Monster
“Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.”
Anne Frank
(1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Interviews with Betty Friedan, Janann Sherman, ed. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2002, ISBN 1578064805, p. x.
Source: The Feminine Mystique
Stanisław Lem
(1921–2006) Polish science fiction author
"Pirx's Tale" in More Tales of Pirx The Pilot (1983)
Context: Oh, I read good books, too, but only Earthside. Why that is, I don't really know. Never stopped to analyze it. Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. When they talk about outer space, they make you feel the silence, so unlike the Earthly kind — and the lifelessness. Whatever the adventures, the message is always the same: humans will never feel at home out there.
What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
John O'Donohue
(1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Immanuel Kant
(1724–1804) German philosopher
Ich soll niemals anders verfahren als so, dass ich auch wollen könne, meine Maxime solle ein allgemeines Gesetz werden.
Kant's supreme moral principle or "categorical imperative"; Variant translations:
Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Do not feel forced to act, as you're only willing to act according to your own universal laws. And that's good. For only willfull acts are universal. And that's your maxim.
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.”
Source: Witches Abroad
Dean Koontz
(1945) American author
Source: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
“Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.”
Martin Buber
(1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
Julia Kristeva
(1941) Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
Source: Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
Flannery O’Connor
(1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.”
Source: True Believer
Source: The Turning Point (1982), p. 82.
Source: The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
Context: At the subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty at definite places, but rather shows "tendencies to exist," and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show "tendencies to occur."
“Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way”
Ronald Reagan
(1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Variant: Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.”
Ronald Reagan
(1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.”
Richard Bach
(1936) American spiritual writer
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Albert Schweitzer
(1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Source: The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 164
Context: Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through its experience of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.
Tad Williams
(1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 718).
Context: “Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.” Morgenes had grinned. “That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You’ll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...”
Source: What's So Amazing About Grace?
Source: Gravity and Grace
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 232
“Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.”
Source: The Gun Seller