WN Stanley Quotes

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.

Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

People don't really think other people are the same.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.

The music is a continuing thing.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

Live in the layers, not on the litter.

The ear writes my poems, not the mind.

It is my heart that's late, it is my song that's flown.

People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.

If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.

You don't wake up in the morning and think, I'm going to be so bad today. I'm going to be a nasty villain to everyone. No, you just wake up and do your own thing.

If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly.

Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.

Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.

To live by worry is to live against reality

Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.

Being a sinner does not disqualify you from following Jesus. It's a prerequisite.

My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.

Only do what only you can do.

Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people.

God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.

Your character is who you really are.

Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.