More from Henry James
I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
Henry JamesHenry James Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
Henry JamesHenry James Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry JamesHenry James In art economy is always beauty.
Henry JamesHenry James If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
Henry JamesHenry James One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
Henry JamesHenry James You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
Henry JamesHenry James The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
Henry JamesHenry James It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
Henry JamesHenry James Excellence does not require perfection.
Henry JamesHenry James There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
Henry JamesHenry James A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
Henry JamesHenry James Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
Henry JamesHenry James It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry JamesHenry James What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry JamesHenry James I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
Henry JamesHenry James
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
Lou HoltzLou Holtz All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
Lou HoltzLou Holtz We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
Nick SabanNick Saban It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming I try to be green as much as I can and it’s hard. I feel like I’m never doing enough.
Zac EfronZac Efron I’m a guy who’s either going to go full bore, or I’m not going to do it at all.
John DalyJohn Daly Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Tom LandryTom Landry I don’t exercise.
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