Browsing Quotes With Tag: individualism (45)
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“My dear friend, have you forgotten that instructive story about Siddhartha, the Brahmin’s son, which you once told me here? Who protected Siddhartha the Samana from Samsara, from sin, greed and folly? Could his father’s piety, his teacher’s exhortations, his own knowledge, his own seeking, protect him? Which father, which teacher, could prevent him from living his own life, from soiling himself with life, from loading himself with sin, from swallowing the bitter drink himself, from finding his own path? Do you think, my dear friend, that anybody is spared this path?”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
New youth cultures can’t be as safe as those of days gone by, because if they stay within socially acceptable limits, marketers pounce, and before long they are just another branded spectacle.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We can transmit to the world a carefully managed perception of who we are, what we think is cool, what we wear and listen to. We need the network or no one will hear us, but we retain the power. Marketers can’t sell us meaning; we have to find it in their products, and if we do, and we’re passionate about them, we’ll happily tell everyone we can. But by the same token, if a brand or an idea makes one wrong move, it can cause the entire crowd to walk away.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Youth cultures today are small and loose-knit, floating on the electronic ether, making authentic connections with fans worldwide. Fans do not court them exclusively; they maintain open relationships with a number of other niche cultures at the same time. The days when punks had a uniform and were easy to identify are gone; marketers can’t tell who we are just by looking at us anymore. Old demographics are becoming obsolete, and old generation gaps are beginning to disappear.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The interesting thing is not to remain the same. To me that’s what’s boring; I don’t really care to see fifty-year-old people going around in punk leather jackets. The point is to stay unclassifiable. Then they don’t own you.
Speaker: Richard HellPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 10:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Speaker: Colin WilsonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everything popular is wrong.
Speaker: Oscar WildeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Speaker: Herbert Bayard SwopeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Speaker: Oscar WildeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You’ll know which to use if you know your character, and we’ll learn something about the speaker that will make him or her more vivid and interesting. The point is to let each character speak freely, without regard to what the Legion of decency or the Christian Ladies’ Reading Circle may approve of. To do otherwise would be cowardly as well as dishonest, and believe me, writing fiction in America as we enter the twenty-first century is no job for intellectual cowards. There are lots of would-be censors out there and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see… or to at least shut up about what you do see that’s different. They are agents of the status quo. Not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.
Speaker: Stephen KingPosted: 25 Aug 2008 at 1:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading, or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic. That goes for reading and writing as well as for playing a musical instrument, hitting a baseball, or running the four-forty. The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate – four to six hours a day, every day – will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them; in fact, you may be following such a program already. If you feel you need permission to do all the reading and writing your little heart desires, however, consider it hereby granted by yours truly.
Speaker: Stephen KingPosted: 25 Aug 2008 at 1:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two kinds of failures: the man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Speaker: Perle ThompsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not wish to be anything but what you are – and try to be that perfectly.
Speaker: Francis de SalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my work… If my life had been made up of eight-hour days I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal.
Speaker: Thomas EdisonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The only tyrant I accept is the ‘still small voice’ within.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every man has within himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who proves the Columbus of his soul.
Speaker: GoethePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
Speaker: TagorePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, their time runs out.
Speaker: Oliver Wendell HolmesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!