"Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor."

-- John Churton Collins

#Attitude Quotes #Favors Quotes #Claims Quotes

“A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.”

Source : Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.168
“For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.”

Source : "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.
“This grossness, physical love, which is actually the biological cooling system, is very essential. The prana feeds the tattvas and the tattvas create the rasa. Rasa means juices. The juices circulate and in that circulation the glandular system works and involves itself. And there's a place to bring it all to harmony.”
“The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.”
“The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.”
“While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.”
“Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.”
“The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.”

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