Doe Quotes - Page 166

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

In other words, my literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show how I (and the hundreds of thousands like me) have transformed America.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

Jesus was a doer, and not only a talker. He led the way by example. He showed us how to live and minister to others.

Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak.

It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.

What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?

I've learned... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.

...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.