“In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to be as sacred as your own word. Make this one change in your life, and your whole life will change.” KindWholeLyingSinSelf EsteemSeriousMoralitySacredSelf ConfidenceWhole LifeEsteemCodeBoost Self ConfidenceBoost Self Esteem Book:The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success Source: The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success
“I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.” ThinkingSometimesLyingSleepLove IsSeriousQuietInventionDeep DownRacks Book:Septimus Source: Septimus
“Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.” IfsMenGivingTryingMindEndsLyingValuesPositionSeriousAbsolutesOppressionLatterUtilityMeaning Nothing Book:The Ethics of Ambiguity Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity
“If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.” IfsIdeasLyingChoicesEasyComedyPiecesSeriousLife ChoicesTennesseeEugene O Neill Author:Woody Allen
“The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's ability to carry this debt. [...] The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.” RealProblemLyingAbilityEconomySeriousLaborEssenceFinancialDebtSavingSpheresFactoriesBubblesEstatesSavingsOverheadBond Market Author:Michael Hudson
“I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.” LyingSunStupidSeriousMindlessDisco Author:Lou Reed