Richard S. Salant famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

  • The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".

  • An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

  • The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

  • Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

  • Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.

  • A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

  • Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

  • I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  • Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.