Quotes by Lecturers

If you want to change the world, change the metaphor.
Joseph Campbell
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man without lowering him in his estimation and yours too.
Josh Billings
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
Joseph Campbell
The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I look closely I can see we have the same colour eyes, not me and Simon, but me and the boy who is also me, the boy who I can no longer recognise, with whom I no longer share a single thought, worry, or hope.
Nathan Filer
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis. It is not yet possessed, it cannot be handled. …It instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon. If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world—an ability denied to any other physical being.
Kenan Malik
Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself.
Ken Keyes Jr.
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
Dale Carnegie
Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.
Nathan Filer
What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.
Dale Carnegie
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crest and crowning of all good Life's final star is Brotherhood.
Edwin Markham
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to conquer fear don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.
Robert McKee
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
Robert McKee
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.
Andrew Solomon
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.
Joseph Campbell
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.
Alfie Kohn
We go to Europe to be Americanized.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.
Dale Carnegie
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not live an equal life but one of contrasts and patchwork now a little joy then a sorrow now a sin then a generous or brave action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. And always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. But all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective . . . Joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world and everything changes.
Joseph Campbell
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who loses a day loses life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choices are the hinges of destiny.
Edwin Markham
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors Landor replies "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
Josh Billings