General quotes
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Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore — on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.
Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking, 'Something's not right, something's not feelin' right'. I just gotta do what I gotta do in Oklahoma and get back to the fast-paced city.
The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
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