Stockdale Stoic Quotes & Sayings

disruption has recently transmogrified into a self-congratulatory buzzword for anything posing as trendy and new. — Peter Thiel

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again, the most strenuous labor affords the greatest artists but a disquieting gleam which only reveals their inadequacy, while the self-satisfied ignoramus surrounded by the deepest gloom flatters himself that he has nothing more to learn. — Jean-Georges Noverre

Fear, anger, jealousy, hatred of self and others are the outcomes of the lack of connectivity with your inner self. Connecting with your inner self and awakening your inner sensuality is not a luxury anymore, but it has become the necessity. — Vishwas Chavan

My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her. — Akeem Ayers

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success. — John Barry

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell. — Kathryn Bigelow

I always knew how to draw a crowd. — Evel Knievel

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain. — Salman Rushdie

Theater owners dodged construction costs, cutting corners and employing nonunion labor. Shoddy methods caused the death of vaudeville comedian Rube Dickinson in Kansas City. Booked at a brand-new venue, Dickinson stepped outside to have a smoke and was standing underneath the large wooden marquee advertising him when it collapsed. As the marquee caved, so too did his head - killed under the weight of his own name. — Kliph Nesteroff

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime. — Cardinal Richelieu

It was not a musical voice, and yet it affected him like music. — Ann Patchett

When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it ... You've got to replace it with a positive thought. — Joel Osteen

I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it. — Yolanda Adams