"It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself."

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Source : F.H. Bradley, Carol Keene (1999). “F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings”, Thoemmes

F. H. Bradley

#Men Quotes #World Quotes

“For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's next? What's next?' I like the equanimity that comes with my age. I don't have big highs, and I don't have big lows. Even if this job goes away tomorrow, the nonstop ambition is a thing of the past for me. I've mellowed”
“The public doesn't get to see everything. I worked with X a couple times since then. Me and X have a close relationship. We actually did a record they were going to put on the Training Day soundtrack but he ending up buying the record from me and putting it on Great Depression as a bonus track.”
“The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.”

Source : Jones Very (1993). “Jones Very: The Complete Poems”, p.72, University of Georgia Press
“I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.”
“When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.”

Source : "God’s Not Dead". Interview with Daniaja Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.
“People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.”
“Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.”
“Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"”

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