No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.