"If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently."

-- Richard McCabe

#Feelings Quotes #Eloquence Quotes

“Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.”
“A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?”
“Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.”
“I have worked with some very great directors.”
“What happened with Final Destination was that the movie was in post-production for a long time and I think they changed a lot of the deaths, so a lot of those things were last-minute additions. Everything we shot is in the movie and it's all been designed. We didn't change anything. It's been a year of making those things happen, exactly as we had pictured them.”
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”
“At that point Ms Fox came in and said, "Hello, carry on as if I am not here." Then she lay down on the floor.”
“No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.”

Source : Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.162, Macmillan

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