“When someone tries to pull you into the mud, remember that they have to get dirty just to reach you; stay on the high ground and let the rain wash them away.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“If you only do the work when someone is watching, you aren't a professional; you're just an actor playing a part.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“I'm going to give you the same advice I give all young authors I mentor. You can't protect your characters.”
Source: The Ghostwriter
“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“Physical engagement is not simply physical contact but the experience of the world through the manifold sensibility of the body. That sensibility is sharpened and strengthened in skill. Skill is intensive and refined world engagement. Skill, in turn, is bound up with social engagement. It molds the person and gives the person character.”
Source: Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry
“I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
I don't don't know why know why,
I simply know that I I I
am am inclined to say to say
a lot a lot this way this way-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
My mom my mom gets mad gets mad,
it irritates my dad my dad,
it drives them up a tree a tree,
that's what they tell they tell me me-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
It gets me in a jam a jam,
but that's the way I am I am,
in fact I think it's neat it's neat
to to to to repeat repeat-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.”
Source: A Pizza the Size of the Sun
“Každý člověk někdy chybuje. Lidský charakter neurčují chyby, které děláme. Určuje ho to, jak se k těm chybám postavíme, jestli se z nich poučíme, místo abychom se je snažili omlouvat.”
Source: It Ends with Us
“Interesting the subtle ways in which people revealed character.”
Source: The Last Jedi
“Without humility, there is no greatness.”
“Your character is whatever you are when nobody is watching.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot