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“You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.”

Men Literature Knowing Taste Judgment

Author:Evan Esar

“One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.”

Source: The Thinking Reed

“I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.”

Thinking Knows Needs Should Secret Know How Knowing Fine Taste Ingredients Not Knowing Coca Cola Kept Secrets

Author:Colin Hanks

“I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?”

People Way Want Feels Ideas Values Choices Asks Millions Knowing Failing Stage Taste Notes Wrong Choices Value Systems

Author:Amy Poehler

“There is one Cosmic Essence, all-pervading, all-knowing, all-powerful. This nameless formless essence can be approached by any name, any form, any symbol that suites the taste of the individual. Follow your religion, but try to understand the real purpose behind all of the rituals and traditions, and experience that Oneness.”

Trying Real Form Purpose Names Individual Powerful Behinds Knowing Taste Tradition Essence Symbols Oneness Ritual Cosmic Nameless

Author:Swami Satchidananda

“artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.”

Trying Said Feelings Artist Left Knowing Color Sweet Taste Longing Painful Frustration Capture Fragile Gestures

Author:Alan Alda

“The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.”

Thinking Lying Memories Secret Knowing Taste Steak Cinnamon

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.”

Thinking Way Feels Looks Heart Play Eye Lying Knowing Taste Mouths Skins Ears Smell Tricks Noses Knowing The Truth

Book:A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost”

Persons Self Helping Wisdom Order Turns Lost Knowing Self Love Taste Despair Absolutes Extremes Luxury Rotten

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.”

Running Views Consciousness Responsibility Knowing Danger Taste Creating Happenings Errors Careful Reflecting Slipping

Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee