Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves Life. And not merely a delightful excercise of technical skill which man had been able to achieve because he, of all animals, had a fine thumb. Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life.
It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.
Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E. g. , religion.
My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.
There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb. . . suggests one day. . . for every kilometer run in anger.
You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.
The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.
Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!
It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.
Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.
A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.
You’ve got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you — all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that you’ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was.
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.
