
As quoted in Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives (1996) by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, p. 85
Life and Human Nature.
Afterthoughts (1931)
As quoted in Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives (1996) by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, p. 85
November 11, 2013.
Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote
“There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.”
7 December 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/144476364966346752
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Attributed to Watson in: William G. Dickerson (1995) In search of the ultimate practice. p. 19.
“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”
Source: Three Weeks With My Brother
“What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very
different things.”
Source: Right Ho, Jeeves
Said about Absinthe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe. Quoted in “Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde: With Reminiscences of the Author" by Ada Leverson (London: Duckworth, 1930)