Novick Tower Quotes & Sayings

Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight. — Dalai Lama

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts. — Ambrose Bierce

Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother [and sister] who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way. — Cesar Chavez

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical — Hermann Broch

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose. — Benjamin Disraeli

In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects. — Cate Blanchett

Courage is ... following your conscience instead of "following the crowd." Sacrificing personal gain for the benefit of others. Speaking your mind even though others don't agree. Taking complete responsibility for your actions and your mistakes. Doing what you know is right, regardless of the consequence. — Eric Harvey

And so her parents-in-law, whom she still regarded as the most eminent people in France, declared that she was an angel; all the more so because they preferred to appear, in marrying their son to her, to have yielded to the attraction rather of her natural charm than of her considerable fortune. — Marcel Proust

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing. — Jack Kornfield

It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again. — Marie Windsor

I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation. — I. F. Stone