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honesty men thinking
Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man? C. S. Lewis
honesty ideas special
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty. Carl Sagan
honesty thinking hollywood
They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself. Bette Davis
honesty mistake responsibility
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts. Bill Vaughan
honesty scapegoat
I did it, in all honesty, because I thought I was going to be made a scapegoat in this case. Burton Kaplan
honesty mind ornaments
A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves. Lord Shaftesbury
honesty simple justice
Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for. Charles Kennedy
honesty jail natural-instinct
No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance. Charles Comiskey
honesty ignorance humility
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. Charles Darwin
thinking fog snow
You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.' Antoine de Saint-Exupery
thinking bigs hard
Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop. Beeban Kidron
thinking work-out people
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well Bebe Neuwirth
thinking years people
For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized. Beck
thinking sound tape
I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded. Beck
thinking trying fans
Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them. Beck
thinking europe interesting
I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe. Beck
thinking trying boring
I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible. Beck
thinking artist hair
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere. Beck
self creative tone
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable. Bela Bartok
self abandon one-thing
The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self. Bede Griffiths
self self-respect world
Learn to live in this world with self-respect B. R. Ambedkar
self society devil
Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. B. H. Liddell Hart
selfish damn-you ideas
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought! B. F. Skinner
self behavior given
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. B. F. Skinner
self knowing done
I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect. Billy Corgan
self decision behavior
To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors. Bill Crawford
self-confidence keys knowing
The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice. Bill Crawford