Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone Weil

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

Simon Sinek

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.

Richard Branson

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Renata Adler

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

Richard Branson

My parents brought me up with this philosophy. You must do things. You mustn't watch what other people are doing. You must not listen to what other people are doing.

Richard Branson

My philosophy in life is that you only live once. Live life to its fullest.

Swami Vivekananda

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

Thomas Wolfe

[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his "philosophy" must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too fixed today, unfixed tomorrow - and his body of beliefs is nothing but a series of fixations.

Robert Andrews Millikan

I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept of religion. in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together. ... because of science and its applications to human life, for these have bloomed in my time as no one in history had had ever dreamed could be possible.

Robert Adams

I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).

Robert A. Heinlein

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Tim Robbins

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

Tim McGraw

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

Thomas Szasz

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.

Seth

Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings.

Li Ka-shing

Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy.

Laura Riding

How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

Larry Clark

[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It was a real rebel position. It was kind of like a teenager's position: why can't things be like they should be? Why can't I do what I want? I latched on to that philosophy. One day I snapped, hey, you know, I know a story that no one's ever told, never seen, and I've lived it. It's my own story and my friends' story.

Marcus Aurelius

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

Marcus Aurelius

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Marco Brambilla

When I'm approached by brands I use the kind of philosophy - I don't really get into a project unless I feel I can make something that will be honest for me.

Marco Arment

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Marc Maron

Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.

Sidney Hook

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Sheryl Crow

So what if right now everything is wrong?

Shigeru Miyamoto

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Natalie Merchant

I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.

Natalie Imbruglia

Intuition tells me how to live my day, intuition tells me when to walk away.

Shirley Jackson

It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.

Shelley Long

I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.

Stevie Wonder

Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?

Steven Pinker

I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events.