“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite”
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite”
“Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted”
“Look twice before you leap”
“If your goal is to reduce costs, then coal is a good idea. If the goal is a renewable fuel, coal is a bad idea. When greenhouse-gas emissions go up, environmentalists take note. Then you've got a problem”
“Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it”
“The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves”
“The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do”
“Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration”
“Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it”
“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about”
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite”
“Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive”
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land”
“An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity”
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done”
“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things”
“Association with human beings lures one into self-observation”
“A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.”