Quotes by Lecturers - Page 15

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.
Dale Carnegie
We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us.The old skin has to be shedbefore the new one can come.If we fix on the old, we get stuck.When we hang onto any form,we are in danger of putrefaction.Hell is life drying up.
Joseph Campbell
My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Ken Keyes Jr.
One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.
Joseph Campbell
If you're wrong, admit it!
Dale Carnegie
What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth.
Joseph Campbell
Good tennis players are those who beat other tennis players, and a good shot during play is one the opponent can't return. But that's not a truth about life or excellence -- it's a truth about tennis. We've created an artificial structure in which one person can't succeed without doing so at someone else's expense, and then we accuse anyone who prefers other kinds of activities of being naive because "there can be only one best -- you're it or you're not," as the teacher who delivered that much-admired you're-not-special commencement speech declared. You see the sleight of hand here? The question isn't whether everyone playing a competitive game can win or whether every student can be above average. Of course they can't. The question that we're discouraged from asking is why our games are competitive -- or our students are compulsively ranked against one another -- in the first place.
Alfie Kohn
All religions are true but none are literal.
Joseph Campbell
The life of truth is cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want for people not to worry so much. Life ain't going to be perfect, but tings will work out. People come to visit and I always tell them not to worry. If you got something to eat, don't worry, be grateful. Just look at all those books. Those books aren't about food. They're to do with worrying about food.
George Dawson
Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North American plains to European forests to Polynesian atolls. The imagery of myth is a language, a lingua franca that expresses something basic about our deepest humanity. It is variously inflected in its various provinces.
Joseph Campbell
We never touch but at points.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.
Robert McKee
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance arms us with terrible freedom so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge yet not the details but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful manly part or a poor drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions they have a substantial truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
Culture with us ends in headache.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
Joseph Campbell
None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth alone. All men go in flocks to this saint or that poet, avoiding the God who seeth in secret. They cannot see in secret; they love to be blind in public. They think society is wiser than their soul, and know not that one soul, and their soul, is wiser than the whole world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.
Joseph Campbell
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell
To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.
Robert McKee
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing against, in the poet Richard Wilbur's phrase, 'loving things for reasons'. You find beauty and hope in the existence, rather than the achievements, of such a child. Most parenthood entails some struggle to change, educate and improve one's children; people with multiple severe disabilities may not become anything else, and there is a compelling purity in parental engagement not with what might or should or will be, but with, simply, what is.
Andrew Solomon
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory let us now commit it to life.
Edwin Markham
Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
Josh Billings
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.
Josh Billings
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.
Joseph Campbell
Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)
Joseph Campbell
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
a man only knows what he's experienced
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.
Nathan Filer
The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of the day, but the adventure of the special, dimly audiblecall that comes to those whose ears are open within as well as without
Joseph Campbell
Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson