Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.
One might ask the question: Is the mortgage interest deduction doing a better job, a worse job, if it's supposed to promote homeownership and savings? Because home ownership is the biggest form of savings in this country. Different people will look at that data and draw different conclusions, but that's just an example of the kind of thing you can pull out of USAFacts and develop a point of view about.
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing. . . When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat. . . and his army medals.