"Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender."

-- Garrison Keillor

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Don't accept the world as it is. Dream of what the world could be - and then help make it happen.”
“Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.15, Library of Alexandria
“The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
“People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.”
“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”
“There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.”

Source : Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons
“Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.”

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