"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery."

-- Reinhold Niebuhr

#Nature Quotes #Self Quotes #Mastery Quotes

“Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.”
“My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!”
“Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.”
“To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."”
“Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.”
“No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!”
“There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.”

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