Dianoetic Virtue Quotes & Sayings

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors ... — Joseph Conrad

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. — Carl Jung

As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Flamingo necks, peacock brains, pike livers, lark tongues, sow's udders, elephant trunks and ears extravagantly frilled with parsley. — Kate Quinn

You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books, at least to begin with. — Katarina Bivald

You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't. — J. C. Watts

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions. — Veerappa Moily

George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor! — Shailene Woodley

I'm going to fail to hit the mark I've put up before me because it's not possible to hit it. I want to be the best at what I do so I've got to get over myself already because that's never going to happen. I ain't ever going to be God. — Tom Hardy

Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all. — George Clooney

Greaness IS for ALL of US. We just need to keep Believing in ourselves and follow our dreams. — Zeenat Aman

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise. — Karl Malone