P.J. Mann Quotes

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Everything is a struggle. Everything is relative, too, so I still feel like I'm struggling, in many aspects. I'm not worried about paying my rent next month, but in about two months, we'll see.

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark

Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD.

Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'

If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.

When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had.

People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster.

A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

Speech is civilization itself.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.

If you know the wavefunction of the universe, why aren't you rich?

The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off.

Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.