Doe Quotes - Page 239

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.

Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

Your self doesn't represent the truth in you, your being does. Give your ease only to what you know represents the truth in you.

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

Progress does not occur without change.

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.

I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

As the soul, itself invisible, is seen by what it does through the body.

Winning does solve everything.

The reviews on it, and the new novel, Honky Tonk Samurai have been awesome, though I'm of the school if you believe the good ones you got to believe the bad ones, it's been mostly good ones. The previewers seem to be very happy and excited about it. I know I am. There are plans to continue if it does well.