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Welcome to these Insane Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
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It would be insane for me to
lose sleep over the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends
and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.
That's what's insane about it.
- John Lennon
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Surrealism had a great effect on me
because then I realized that
the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity.
Surrealism to me is reality.
- John Lennon
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,
but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done,
even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
There lies freedom, indeed.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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