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“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Part 1 : Fundamental Techniques in Handling People, p. 36.
Origine: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
Contesto: Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, "... and speak all the good I know of everybody." Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. "A great man shows his greatness," says Carlyle, "by the way he treats little men."

Ernest Hemingway photo
George Carlin photo

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Variante: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Jane Austen photo
Albert Einstein photo

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variante: Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Richard Bach photo

“Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Origine: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Contesto: You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Milan Kundera photo

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

Milan Kundera libro L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere

pg 233
Origine: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight

Jane Austen photo

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
Dichiaro dopotutto che non c'è divertimento come leggere! Quanto prima ci si stanca di qualcosa che non di un libro!

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Ralph Waldo Emerson frase: “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Fai sempre ciò che hai paura di fare.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Paulo Coelho frase: “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
Paulo Coelho photo

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

Paulo Coelho libro L'alchimista

Origine: The Alchemist (1988), p. 184; this also has been quoted as "What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time."

Jane Austen photo

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”

Jane Austen libro Ragione e sentimento

Origine: Sense and Sensibility

Ernest Hemingway photo

“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”

Ernest Hemingway libro Addio alle armi

Origine: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 21

Paulo Coelho photo
Jane Austen photo

“A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
Una donna, specie se ha la sfortuna di conoscere ogni cosa, dovrebbe nasconderlo meglio che può.

Jane Austen libro Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey (1817)
Works, Northanger Abbey

Oprah Winfrey photo

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
La più grande avventura che possa mai intraprendere è di vivere la vita dei tuoi sogni.

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Jack Kerouac photo

“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”
La vita deve essere ricca e piena di amore - altrimenti non serve a niente, proprio a niente e a nessuno.

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Origine: Selected Letters, 1940-1956

Leo Tolstoy photo

“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”

Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

Arthur Schopenhauer photo
André Maurois photo

“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship

Gloria Naylor photo
Henry Adams photo

“A friend in power is a friend lost.”
Un amico al potere è un amico perduto.

Henry Adams libro The Education of Henry Adams

Origine: The Education of Henry Adams

Jane Austen photo

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
Merito sempre il miglior trattamento perché non ne tollero altri.

Jane Austen libro Emma

Origine: Emma

Richard Bach photo

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

Thich Nhat Hanh photo
Paulo Coelho photo

“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Origine: Veronika Decides to Die (1998)

William Faulkner photo

“The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.”
La prossima volta che cerchi di sedurre qualcuno, non farlo con le chiacchiere, con le parole. Le donne ne sanno di più sulle parole di quanto non ne sapranno mai gli uomini. E sanno quanto poco possono mai significare.

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Confucius photo

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Attributed in Lillet Walters (2000), Secrets of Superstar Speakers; attributed in English sources as a "Japanese proverb" as early as 1924
Misattributed, Not Chinese

Charles Baudelaire photo

“Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.”
Anche quando cammina uno potrebbe pensare che lei balli.

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet
Victor Hugo photo

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”

Victor Hugo libro Notre-Dame de Paris

Origine: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Samuel Taylor Coleridge photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Niente di grande fu mai compiuto senza entusiasmo.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles

Robert A. Heinlein photo

“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”

Robert A. Heinlein libro The Green Hills of Earth

Logic of Empire (p. 335); this is one of the earliest known variants of an idea which has become known as Hanlon's razor.
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Origine: The Green Hills of Earth

Paulo Coelho photo
Niccolo Machiavelli photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson libro Experience

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
Variante: Nature and books belong to all who see them.

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Milton Berle photo

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”

Milton Berle (1908–2002) American comedian and actor

Variante: If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Charles Bukowski photo

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
„Dio ci ha dato due orecchie, ma soltanto una bocca, proprio per ascoltare il doppio e parlare la metà.“

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Victor Hugo photo

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”

Victor Hugo libro I miserabili

Origine: Les Misérables

Winston S. Churchill photo

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Origine: Wealth, War, and Wisdom

Marilyn Monroe photo
Henry David Thoreau photo
John Steinbeck photo
George Bernard Shaw photo

“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”
Il successo non consiste nel non commettere mai errori, ma nel non fare mai lo stesso errore una seconda volta.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

H. W. Shaw (Josh Billings), as quoted in Scientific American, Vol. 31 (1874), p. 121, and in dictionaries of quotations such as Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 117 https://archive.org/stream/excellentquotat00hoitgoog/excellentquotat00hoitgoog#page/n138/mode/1up and Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) by Louis Klopsch, p. 266 https://archive.org/stream/manythoughtsman00klopgoog/manythoughtsman00klopgoog#page/n268/mode/1up.
Misattributed

Jerome K. Jerome photo

“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”

Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

Origine: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Ernest Hemingway photo

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

On the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer, as quoted in With Hemingway (1984) by Arnold Samuelson

Paulo Coelho photo
Albert Einstein photo

“I believe in intuition and inspiration.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97; also in Transformation : Arts, Communication, Environment (1950) by Harry Holtzman, p. 138. This may be an edited version of some nearly identical quotes from the 1929 Viereck interview below.
1930s
Contesto: I believe in intuition and inspiration. … At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. In fact I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Plutarch photo
Woody Allen photo

“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Gustave Flaubert photo

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
Rimani fermo nelle convinzioni e sii disciplinato nella vita privata, e poi sarai orgoglioso di te e unico sul luogo di lavoro.

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres. To Gertrude Tennant (December 25, 1876)
Correspondence
Variante: Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Albert Einstein photo

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

"Self-Portrait" (1936), p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false
1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950)
Variante: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Joseph Campbell photo
John F. Kennedy photo

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
I diritti di ogni uomo diminuiscono quando questi vengono minacciati.

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Milan Kundera photo
Francesco Petrarca photo

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”

Francesco Petrarca libro De remediis utriusque fortunae

De remediis utriusque fortunae (1354), Book II

Helen Keller photo

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
Mantieni il tuo volto in pieno sole, e non potrai vedere l'ombra.

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Variante: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.

Lucille Ball photo
Charles Bukowski photo
Carl Sagan photo
Hans Christian Andersen photo

“To travel is to live.”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

The Fairy Tale of My Life
Fairy Tales (1835)
Origine: The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

Henry Ford photo

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
Qualità significa fare le cose bene quando nessuno ti sta guardando.

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Andy Warhol photo

“Everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it.”
Ogni cosa ha la sua bellezza, ma non tutti la vedono

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Madonna photo
Aldous Huxley photo
Simone de Beauvoir photo

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
Non sono capace di concepire l'infinito, eppure non accetto la finitezza. Vorrei che questa avventura che è lo scenario della mia vita continuasse senza fine.

Simone de Beauvoir libro La Vieillesse

Pt. 2, Ch. 2: Time, activity, history, p. 412
The Coming of Age (1970)
Origine: La Vieillesse

Oprah Winfrey photo

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Anaïs Nin photo
William Faulkner photo

“I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.”
Sono cattivo e andrò all’inferno, e non mi interessa. Preferirei essere all’inferno piuttosto che in qualsiasi posto in cui ci sei tu.

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Ernest Hemingway photo

“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
Non sono più coraggioso tesoro. Sono completamente distrutto. Mi hanno distrutto.

Ernest Hemingway libro Addio alle armi

Origine: A Farewell to Arms

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Katherine Mansfield photo

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”

Katherine Mansfield libro Je ne parle pas français

"Je ne parle pas français," http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mansfield/bliss/bliss.html#francais from Bliss and Other Stories (1920)
Variante: I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it.
Contesto: I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it. You can't get it into shape; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Albert Einstein photo

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variante: Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.

Agatha Christie photo

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
L'istinto è una cosa meravigliosa» continuò Poirot. «Non può essere spiegato, né dev'essere ignorato.

Agatha Christie libro Poirot a Styles Court

Origine: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Confucius photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Woody Allen photo
Woody Allen photo

“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Maya Angelou photo

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Origine: Poems

Wayne W. Dyer photo
Woody Allen photo

“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Variante: There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Oliver Goldsmith photo

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer

Variante: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Origine: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

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