Katori Shingo Quotes

#1. Give up control to gain control.

George Knudson

#2. I was a weird kid because I liked to be alone, but I craved attention. It was important for me to be cool, but I couldn't keep my mouth shut. So I was either talking for the sake of talking, or I was curled up with a book somewhere hiding from everyone.

Anthony Jeselnik

#3. The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse ... To be too subjective with what an artist has managed to make objective is to come on him presumptuously and render ungraceful what he in pain of his life had faith he had made graceful.

Robert Frost

#4. Schools can do no good; what will do good is an economic organization in which the people will become richer, will have more leisure - and then there will be schools.

Anton Chekhov

#5. Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

Blaise Pascal

#6. As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

Rachel Sklar

#7. Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman

#8. I am the slave of what I have spoken, but the master of what I conceal.

Ramsay Wood

#9. We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#10. Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens.

Michelle Franklin

#11. In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

Michael Jackson

#12. Drinking is a fast-forward button; it makes you feel close to a person so quickly.

Alison Rosen

#13. People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

Timothy Leary