success

"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate."

"A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind."

"The light from the big window fell right on the picture. I took a good look at it. Then I shifted a bit nearer and took another look. Then I went back to where I had been at first, because it hadn't s…"

"The "Great Society" has not worked and it's put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don't have food stamps. If you look at China, they're in a very different situation. They s…"

"It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to the wind which strikes it, and one leans against the other."

"Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff."

"We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful."

"Progress towards sanity is achieved by abandoning first the desire for omnipotence and then that for exceptional achievement."

"Take a straw and throw it up into the air — you may see by that which way the wind is."

"Showing something before it becomes complete spoils that thing."

"Much of my criticism of religion comes about when I see it not only affirming the system of normalcy but teaching folks how to live there comfortably. It just increases our “stuckness” in the old worl…"

"We think of the defeat and collapse of the Soviet Union as a Western victory in the Cold War, and some of us credit President Reagan more particularly with that victory. For Osama bin Laden and his fo…"

"Beforehand I don't make any drawing of the object or objects which I want to paint on the canvas or panel.. ..but I start directly to situate the designed plan on the canvas - After having thoroughly …"

"80% of success in your career will come from just showing up. The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked."

"The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage."

"Edwin Curley at University of Michigan"

"Cultural products which present foreign wars as the heroic effort of a master race to ennoble mankind are, to the degree they are successful as art, objectively in the interests of imperialists, who a…"

"What if the pitcher be Persian, from Hejaz is the wine I serve."

"Democracy means to rely on the masses, correctly follow the mass line. Hence to be successful, the movement against embezzlement, waste and bureaucracy must rely on the masses."

"There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire."