"If you want others to follow, learn to……" — William Deresiewicz
"If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts"
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11 Quotes by William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz has 11 quotes on this site.
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There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in…
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Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself
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But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to…
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If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.
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Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your…
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People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most…
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Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort,…
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Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may…
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Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or…
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People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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