Ben Hecht
Love is a hole in the heart.
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The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
Love is not selfish.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
To know me is to love me.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
Well, nobody's perfect.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
If you build it, he will come.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Ideas... they have the power
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
I'm king of the world !
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
The truth is more important than the facts.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
We rob banks.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I'm an excellent driver.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
But I would be proud.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.