Part 1 : Fundamental Techniques in Handling People, p. 36.
Fonte: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
Contexto: Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, "... and speak all the good I know of everybody." Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. "A great man shows his greatness," says Carlyle, "by the way he treats little men."
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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
Variante: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
Variante: Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Fonte: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Contexto: You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
pg 233
Fonte: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Faça aquilo que você mais teme.
Fonte: The Alchemist (1988), p. 184; this also has been quoted as "What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time."
“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”
Nem todos - disse Elinor -, são apaixonados por folhas mortas.
Fonte: Sense and Sensibility
“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
Fonte: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 21
“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
Fonte: The Alchemist
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
A maior aventura que você pode realizar é viver a vida dos seus sonhos.
“Make the most of yourself…. for that is all there is of you.”
Aproveite o máximo de si, pois é tudo o que existe em você.
“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”
A vida deve ser rica e cheia de amor - não é bom de outra forma, não é nada bom, para ninguém.
Fonte: Selected Letters, 1940-1956
“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
Fonte: Anna Karenina
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
“A friend in power is a friend lost.”
Fonte: The Education of Henry Adams
“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
Eu sempre mereço o melhor tratamento, porque nunca tolero nenhum outro.
Fonte: Emma
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
O fracasso jamais me surpreenderá, se a minha decisão de vencer for suficientemente forte.
“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”
Fonte: Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Attributed in Lillet Walters (2000), Secrets of Superstar Speakers; attributed in English sources as a "Japanese proverb" as early as 1924
Misattributed, Not Chinese
“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
Fonte: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Nada de grandioso alguma vez foi alcançado sem entusiasmo.
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
Logic of Empire (p. 335); this is one of the earliest known variants of an idea which has become known as Hanlon's razor.
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Fonte: The Green Hills of Earth
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”
A natureza e os livros pertencem aos olhos que os veem.
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
Variante: Nature and books belong to all who see them.
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
Variante: If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
Seja bobo. Seja honesto. Seja gentil.
“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
Solidão de verdade não necessariamente se limita a quando você está só.
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Ele tem todas as virtudes que eu não gosto e nenhum dos vícios que admiro.
Fonte: Wealth, War, and Wisdom
“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”
Se eu interpretar uma garota estúpida, e perguntar questões estúpidas, então tenho que seguir isso. O que eu posso fazer para parecer inteligente?
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
Fonte: The Grapes of Wrath
“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”
O sucesso não consiste em nunca cometer erros, mas em nunca cometer o mesmo erro duas vezes.
H. W. Shaw (Josh Billings), as quoted in Scientific American, Vol. 31 (1874), p. 121, and in dictionaries of quotations such as Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 117 https://archive.org/stream/excellentquotat00hoitgoog/excellentquotat00hoitgoog#page/n138/mode/1up and Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) by Louis Klopsch, p. 266 https://archive.org/stream/manythoughtsman00klopgoog/manythoughtsman00klopgoog#page/n268/mode/1up.
Misattributed
“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”
Fonte: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
On the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer, as quoted in With Hemingway (1984) by Arnold Samuelson
“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
A parte difícil de escrever um romance é terminá-lo.
“I believe in intuition and inspiration.”
Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97; also in Transformation : Arts, Communication, Environment (1950) by Harry Holtzman, p. 138. This may be an edited version of some nearly identical quotes from the 1929 Viereck interview below.
1930s
Contexto: I believe in intuition and inspiration. … At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. In fact I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres. To Gertrude Tennant (December 25, 1876)
Correspondence
Variante: Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
"Self-Portrait" (1936), p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false
1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950)
Variante: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
Reservar o nosso pensamento implica uma esperança infinita.
Fonte: The Great Gatsby
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
De remediis utriusque fortunae (1354), Book II
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
Muitas pessoas perdem as pequenas alegrias enquanto aguardam a grande felicidade.
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
Mantenha seu rosto voltado para o sol e você não conseguirá ver a sombra.
Variante: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.
“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”
Tenho uma religião diária que funciona para mim. Ama-te primeiro a ti mesmo, e todo o resto se alinha.
“It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun”
Fonte: Factotum
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
Fonte: Cosmos (1980), p. 4
The Fairy Tale of My Life
Fairy Tales (1835)
Fonte: The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
Qualidade significa fazer certo quando ninguém está olhando.
“If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”
“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
Há um único recanto do universo que podemos ter certeza de melhorar: o nosso próprio eu.
Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
Pt. 2, Ch. 2: Time, activity, history, p. 412
The Coming of Age (1970)
Fonte: La Vieillesse
“Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
Fonte: A Farewell to Arms
"Je ne parle pas français," http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mansfield/bliss/bliss.html#francais from Bliss and Other Stories (1920)
Variante: I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it.
Contexto: I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it. You can't get it into shape; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
Variante: Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
Fonte: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
O meu objectivo é colocar no papel aquilo que vejo e aquilo que sinto da mais simples e melhor maneira.
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
Fonte: Eleven Minutes
“I've been on a calendar, but never on time.”
Já estive em calendário mas nunca cheguei na hora.
“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”
Fonte: Poems
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
Variante: There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Variante: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Fonte: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith