Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rohn

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Jim Rohn

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

Jim Rohn

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

Jim Rohn

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Jim Rohn

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

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.

George MacDonald

Philosophy is really homesickness.

George Jones

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

Emanuel Celler

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Emanuel Swedenborg

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

Elvis Presley

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

Elvis Presley

Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?

Elvis Presley

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

Elizabeth Gilbert

Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.

John Crowe Ransom

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

John Constable

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?

John Burroughs

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

John Burroughs

Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and flowers are not always in season, but philosophy we have always with us. It is a crop which we can grow and reap at all times and in all places and it has its own value and brings its own satisfaction.

Joel Silver

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

Joel Salatin

A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.

Joel Salatin

We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.

Lou Rawls

I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

Louis Althusser

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.

Louis Althusser

One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.

Louis Althusser

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

Lou Reed

Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

Lou Reed

The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.

Lou Reed

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

Lou Reed

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.