Being Diffident Quotes & Sayings

(1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do. — David Allen

When Christians unto carnal men give ear, Out of their way they go, and pay for 't dear; For Master Worldly Wiseman can but shew A saint the way to bondage and to woe. — John Bunyan

Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own. — John Balguy

I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own
memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called
rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,
a great human gift disowned. — Grace Paley

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. — Studs Terkel

..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly. — Masuji Ibuse

You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan ... — Eric Maisel

Science never abandoned me the way religion had that night.
Forsaking the Holy Father was considered a sin, and I did it repeatedly. Each time my blade met with flesh, I sinned more and welcomed it.
God no longer held dominion over my soul. — Kerri Maniscalco

I fall asleep with the sound of rain; I wake up with the songs of the wind. — Debasish Mridha

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict. — Robert Shea

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely. — Laura Lee Guhrke

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name. — Dave Mustaine

Fuck a duck! The asshole has a girlfriend. Great! Just great. Which makes me that woman. The other woman. — Belle Aurora

To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger. — Joel Osteen

SOLOMON KUGEL
His performance, of late,
had been subpar.
Born, unfortunately. Died eventually. — Shalom Auslander

We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us.
What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said
that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise. — Franz Kafka