Top 14 Barbary Slave Quotes
#1. By leaving a student to himself he may ... be led to undertake matters above his strength, but the trial will at least have this advantage: it will discover to himself his own deficiencies and this discovery alone is a very considerable acquisition.
Joshua Reynolds
#2. The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. All I'm saying is that your happiness is in your hands and those of your nearest and dearest. And if you think I'm going to show up two decades or so down the line to collect your soul in my moldy old pocketbook, you'd better think again. The souls of humans have become poor and transparent things.
Stephen King
#4. It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.
Haim Shapira
#5. When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to.
Charlotte Eriksson
#6. For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only an option. I might publish this, I might not. I think if I had to publish it, I might panic.
Daniel Kehlmann
#7. Too often we react to our thoughts as if they are the absolute truth or as if we must give them all our attention. The psychological jargon for this reaction is fusion.
Russ Harris
#9. I love people! I am a people person. I am a very curious human being. I am very interested in what people have to say. I love cultures, too, so I am always traveling.
Kenny Johnson
#11. President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in D.C. of being a 'tepid' regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's living up to that reputation.
Marvin Ammori
#12. Huh. I'm not sure how to respond to this. Is Alex Trebek black? He sure doesn't look black. He looks pretty white to me. He looks like the quintessence, the very incarnation, of whiteness.
A. J. Jacobs
#14. Competent people are the most resistant to change
Seth Godin
