All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
SYDNEY J. HARRISLove makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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