ISTP Quotes

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. Julius Caesar

I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. Julius Caesar

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. Julius Caesar

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. Julius Caesar

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. Julius Caesar

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. Julius Caesar

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. Julius Caesar

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. Julius Caesar

Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected". Julius Caesar

Every new time will give its law. Maxim Gorky

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. Maxim Gorky

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. Maxim Gorky

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them. Maxim Gorky

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. Maxim Gorky

Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. Pablo Picasso

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. Pablo Picasso

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo Picasso

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
Pablo Picasso

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
Pablo Picasso

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso

One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
Pablo Picasso

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pablo Picasso

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Pablo Picasso

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso

Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
William Faulkner

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
William Faulkner

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner

I decline to accept the end of man.
William Faulkner

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
William Faulkner

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
William Faulkner

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William Faulkner

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
William Faulkner

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
William Faulkner

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner

Others have done it before me. I can, too.
William Faulkner

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
William Faulkner

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
William Faulkner

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
William Faulkner

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
William Faulkner

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
William Faulkner

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
William Faulkner

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner

Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.
Horatio Nelson

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Horatio Nelson

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Horatio Nelson

England expects that every man will do his duty.
Horatio Nelson

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Horatio Nelson

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
Horatio Nelson

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson

I cannot command winds and weather.
Horatio Nelson

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
Horatio Nelson

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me.
Horatio Nelson


If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
Horatio Nelson

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
Horatio Nelson

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Horatio Nelson

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.
Horatio Nelson

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
Horatio Nelson

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio Nelson

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Horatio Nelson

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
Horatio Nelson

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
Horatio Nelson

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
Horatio Nelson

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
Horatio Nelson

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
Horatio Nelson

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle, but he dreads disgrace more.
Horatio Nelson

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
Horatio Nelson

The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had.
Horatio Nelson

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
Horatio Nelson

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
Duke of Wellington

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
Duke of Wellington

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
Duke of Wellington

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Duke of Wellington

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Duke of Wellington

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
Duke of Wellington

Publish and be dammed.
Duke of Wellington

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
Erwin Rommel

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
Erwin Rommel

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.
Erwin Rommel

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
Bernard Law Montgomery

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
Bernard Law Montgomery

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
Bernard Law Montgomery

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
Bernard Law Montgomery

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.
Bernard Law Montgomery

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
Bernard Law Montgomery

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
Bernard Law Montgomery

God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't.
Diego Maradona

I felt like Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Diego Maradona

I worked hard all my life for this. Those who say I don't deserve anything, that it all came easy, can kiss my arse.
Diego Maradona

The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.
Diego Maradona

“I don't think it's the best moment to join the team. I want to make it clear that I don't want to get in anyone's way.”
Diego Maradona quotes

“He is not having any problems coping and he carries the ball on his instep with the only problem being the speed he is going. He feels the ball and that is the difference from the rest.”
Diego Maradona quotes

“You are an example for him because you are a conqueror.”
Diego Maradona quotes

“To those of you who have cheered on my goals, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
Diego Maradona quotes

“I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, ... I told them, 'Come hug me or the referee isn't going to allow it.'”
Diego Maradona quotes

“the Lord helps those who help themselves.”
Diego Maradona quotes

“Menotti didn't make a mistake because he won the World Cup. You can't criticize that.”
Diego Maradona quotes

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
Scipio Africanus

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Scipio Africanus

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.
Scipio Africanus

All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Mao Tse-Tung

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Tse-Tung

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Tse-Tung

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Mao Tse-Tung

Khrushchev should get a one-ton medal.
Mao Tse-Tung

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Tse-Tung

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
Mao Tse-Tung

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Tse-Tung

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
Mao Tse-Tung

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-Tung

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.
Mao Tse-Tung

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Mao Tse-Tung

Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own.
Mao Tse-Tung

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Tse-Tung

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Mao Tse-Tung

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Mao Tse-Tung

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.
Mao Tse-Tung

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
Jack Nicholson

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
Jack Nicholson

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
Jack Nicholson

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
Jack Nicholson

Once you've been really 'bad' in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
Jack Nicholson

Our generation are the new old. I remember what someone of 60 looked like when I was a kid. They didn't look like me.
Jack Nicholson

There's so much darn porn out there, I never got out of the house.
Jack Nicholson
On why he was giving up using the internet