"We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us."

-- Stephen Covey

#Change Quotes #Asking Quotes

“I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.”
“A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.”
“Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads.”
“All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'”

Source : Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.19, The Overlook Press
“In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.”
“I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive”
“My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.”
“Our vulnerability [to ressentiment], is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.”

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