Po Bronson Quotes
The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.
Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.
People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .
How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.
A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
If someone's 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion.
Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss.
Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.
Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
I take pride in my sports knowledge. I take pride in everything I do. It's part of me.
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical
Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
