Quotes
Quotes - Brooks
O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee to-night.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Don't pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure.
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our ow.
Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Poetry is life distilled.
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
"Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen Of cataracts!" An angel who had been O'er heaven and earth, spoke thus, his bright wings furled, And knelt to Nature first, on the wild cliff unseen.
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.
