Men Quotes - Page 545

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

Extraordinary accomplishments are only achieved when we are able to overcome extraordinary challenges.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.

A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.

You are not free until your past has no effect on your future

[Andrea De Cesaris is] the man who has won more Grands Prix than anybody else in the history of Grand Prix racing without actually winning one of them.

Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker's employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone from being hired at the wage which would pay his employer to hire him.