S. I. Hayakawa Quotes

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

S. I. Hayakawa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 18, 1906 - February 27, 1992

Topics

FailureManI AmThreeDifference

The body and dendrites of a nerve cell are specialized for the reception and integration of information which is conveyed as impulses that are fired from other nerve cells along their axons.

John Eccles

InformationBodyIntegrationFired

It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

Andris Nelsons

MusiciansChooseImportantOrchestra

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

Meat Loaf

MirrorReflectionDayI AmPeople

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.

Alyssa Milano

PassionBeautifulMoneyCompassion

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

Tre Cool

ArtDoingNowRockBecomePunk

When I was dealing with a lot of Iraqis, lies were constant; people constantly lied to you. It's a part of their culture. They wanted to please you so much, they were willing to lie to you to please you.

Tom King

CultureLiePeopleYouWillingLies

Ben Karlin is a friend of mine and was a writer on 'The Daily Show.' He's just put out a book and asked a bunch of writers from various disciplines to contribute. It was called 'Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me,' and of course I agreed, and then I actually had to sit down and write it. God, writing fiction is terrifying.

Tom McCarthy

FriendWomenDailyGodMeWriting

I don't think I've ever made any good financial decisions.

Roger Moore

GoodThinkFinancialDecisionsMade

My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be.

Rosecrans Baldwin

CollegeAmbitionYouDreamPerson

People say people who spend too many years in prison don't know how to act when they get free. I don't know how I am going to act, how I am going to kill time, once I am not a fighter. Retirement scares me, and I have to think about how I am going to handle it.

Mirko Cro Cop

TimeI AmPeopleMeFreeThink

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

ThreeDeadYearsShouldPlaywrights

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

Jonah Goldberg

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