Duffy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

  • In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

  • Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  • The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  • Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

  • One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  • Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

  • To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.

  • You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

  • So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

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