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“Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.”
Charlie Chaplin
“We think too much and feel too little.”
Charlie Chaplin
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Galileo Galilei
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs
“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.”
Steve Jobs
“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”
Albert Einstein
“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me. I always feel that they have not said enough.”
Mark Twain
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
Mother Teresa
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”
Mother Teresa
“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.”
Mother Teresa
“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future, and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde
“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
Oscar Wilde
“Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.”
Corliss Lamont
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela
“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”
Jane Austen
“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”
Pablo Picasso
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
Confucius
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
Confucius
“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”
Amelia Earhart
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Sigmund Freud
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”
Sigmund Freud
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
Sigmund Freud
“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”
Sigmund Freud
“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”
Dale Carnegie
“Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.”
Dale Carnegie