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~ An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. ~ ~ And protect your heart from being inclined toward what you have renounced of people and desires and wishes and option and effort and from losing patience and harmony and pleasure with God at the time of the befalling of calamity. ~ ~ Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes. ~ ~ To visualize an image in whole or in part is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final prin ~ ~ Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion ~ ~ Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures ~ ~ The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ~ ~ When you accustom people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins... you will have sins in abundance ~ ~ A secret of abundance is to stop focussing on what you do not have and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you do have No limit people are so in charge that theycan trust their instincts, be childlike, be creative and do anything that makes sense to them. ~ ~ Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds ~ ~ We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. ~ ~ An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. ïMichael Korda We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. ïG. K. Chesterton Often a noble face hides filthy ways. ïEuripides The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ~ ~ The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. ~ ~ Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. ~ ~ Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered. ~ ~ Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. . . . Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ~ ~ On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. ~ ~ A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. ~ ~ The greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy. ~ ~ The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before ~ ~ But each spring...a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground ~ ~ What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden. ~ ~ Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? ~ ~ Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin. ~ ~ Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. ~ ~ Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. ~ ~ You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers ~ ~ Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status ~ ~ Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve ~ ~ There is great power in focusing on what you want..... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither." ~ |
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