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“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful”
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Interview with Charlie Rose, on PBS (1 October 2008), also reported in "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview" at CNBC (1 October 2008) http://www.cnbc.com/id/26982338 <br class="br">Context: You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. … They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
“Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: No one really starts anything new, Mrs Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.
Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Jorge Luis Borges book Ficciones
"The Secret Miracle"; Variant: Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Source: Ficciones (1944)
Roger A. Caras (1928–2001) American photographer
“Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Source: The Complete Essays
Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“4. You hear his voice in a crowd more than any other.”
Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 13
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Herzog on Herzog (2002), On Klaus Kinski
“For him, life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Enshrined
“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.”
Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist
Source: Dream When You're Feeling Blue
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Because the world owes me nothing
And we owe each other the world.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Joyful Girl
Song lyrics
“No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.”
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.”
Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian
Source: Point Omega
“My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
“The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.”
Alan Hollinghurst book The Line of Beauty
Source: The Line of Beauty
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter III
“Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Lost Herondale
David Hume book A Treatise of Human Nature
Part 3, Section 3
Part 3, Section 3
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 2: Of the passions
Context: We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Context: What may at first occur on this head, is, that as nothing can be contrary to truth or reason, except what has a reference to it, and as the judgments of our understanding only have this reference, it must follow, that passions can be contrary to reason only so far as they are accompany'd with some judgment or opinion. According to this principle, which is so obvious and natural, `tis only in two senses, that any affection can be call'd unreasonable. First, When a passion, such as hope or fear, grief or joy, despair or security, is founded on the supposition or the existence of objects, which really do not exist. Secondly, When in exerting any passion in action, we chuse means insufficient for the design'd end, and deceive ourselves in our judgment of causes and effects. Where a passion is neither founded on false suppositions, nor chuses means insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it. `Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. `Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me. `Tis as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledge'd lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter. A trivial good may, from certain circumstances, produce a desire superior to what arises from the greatest and most valuable enjoyment; nor is there any thing more extraordinary in this, than in mechanics to see one pound weight raise up a hundred by the advantage of its situation. In short, a passion must be accompany'd with some false judgment. in order to its being unreasonable; and even then `tis not the passion, properly speaking, which is unreasonable, but the judgment.
“We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.”
Jonathan Maberry book Dust & Decay
Source: Dust & Decay
“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”
Thea Astley (1925–2004) Australian novelist
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.”
Judith Butler (1956) American philosopher and gender theorist