Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Quote by Baltasar Gracian
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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
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Baltasar Gracian Quotes
- Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
- True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
- A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
- Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
- Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
- To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
- True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
- Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
- Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
- Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Best Quotes
- Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.
- Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
- I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
- To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
- The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
- It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
- The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
- On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
- The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
- Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.