Short James Baldwin Quotes

#1. It had been so once; it had almost been so once. I could make it so again, I could make it real. It only demanded a short, hard strength for me to become myself again.

James Baldwin

#2. Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. I'm at a place in my life where I do finally feel, at least most of the time, that I know who I am and I'm comfortable with the person that I am.

Aaron Tveit

#4. Most people ... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

James A. Baldwin

#5. He was living, breathing poetry. Not love poetry, but the poetry which tears out your heart, rips it to shreds, pushes it back into your chest, and makes you question what the hell just obliterated your soul.

Tillie Cole

#6. Whether at home or at work, ISTJs are nothing if not reliable, particularly when it comes to inspecting the people and things in their jurisdiction-quietly seeing to it that uniform quality of product is maintained, and that those around them uphold certain standards of attitude and conduct.

David Keirsey

#7. Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

Linus Torvalds

#8. You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

Conrad Hall

#9. I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it.

Yogi Berra

#10. Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#11. She prefers simply a life in the shape of an Apollo to that of humpbacked Pulcinello; that is her philosophy. She

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#12. Never judge a student's skill on the bases of his academic success; you may never know that he could be tomorrow's Einstein.

Srinivas Shenoy

#13. A good way to adjust to a healthier diet is to think of three meals you enjoy that are largely plant-based. Pasta with tomato sauce can be tweaked to whole-grain pasta with added vegetables.

Michael Greger

#14. If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."

Viggo Mortensen

#15. I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

Joni Mitchell

#16. We all have problems, but let's not kid ourselves: it's how we deal with them that makes the difference.

Jonathan Harnisch