390 quotes found
“I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it it's my personality.”
“The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind.”
“I look at ordinary people in their suits them with no scars and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to convent...”
“A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him.”
“In the first grade I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated everyone gave me one hundred...”
“The same man cannot be skilled in everything each has his special excellence.”
“I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.”
“I was playing it like Willie Wilson but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.”
“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.”
“If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the ...”
“Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.”
“Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly.”
“Are you doing the kind of work you were built for so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparativ...”
“Whenever it is possible a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.”
“It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.”
“The high prize of life the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.”
“Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.”
“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.”
“One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.”
“If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.”
