J.P.R. Williams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

  • A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

  • If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

  • My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

  • Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

  • Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

  • Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

  • There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

  • I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

  • We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

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