Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rohn

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

Jim Rohn

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

Jim Rohn

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.

Jim Rohn

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

Jim Rohn

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

All Phil is trying to do is set the record straight.

Damien Woody

It's early. How many teams do you know their philosophy in Week 2?

They have their system and their philosophy, and they're willing to stick by it,

Pierce Brosnan

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

David Mitchell

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

David Graeber

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say?

David Guterson

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

David Suchet

When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.

Alan Bennett

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Alan Arkin

I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

David Hume

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

David Hume

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Arnold Palmer

Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.

Antonio Tabucchi

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Cheryl Mendelson

I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

Charlie Hunnam

My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.

William Shakespeare

Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.

William Shakespeare

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile

Bryce Dallas Howard

The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.

Bryan Adams

Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.

Camille Paglia

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility

Bryan Magee

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

Carl Honore

In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the Slow philosophy is taking the time to do things properly, and thereby enjoy them more.

Carl Jung

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

Carl Jung

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

Edward Gibbon

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.