A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Orison Swett Marden
To be conscious means not simply to be but to be reported known to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
William James
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
Theodor W. Adorno
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Life is better than death I believe if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller
