Quotes by
Manolis Doukides |
Μανώλης Δουκίδης, Greek writer
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Quotations
| • | Unfortunately, books and the Internet are not enough. They are useful, but they cannot teach you much about life. You cannot, with only books, become a pilot. Nor can you learn to ride a bike, swim, or make love. You need real experiences, you need practical training, and you need a real person to show you the basics. 4 |
| • | When someone accuses you of only doing what you want, they usually mean you’re not doing what they want. 4 |
| • | You have every right to stand up for your rights, but you have no right to enforce them. 3 |
| • | Power, praise, fame, success are things that make good people better and bad people worse. 3 |
| • | Old people like to say that they are no longer worthy of anything, implying that at one time they were worthy of extraordinary deeds. 2 |
| • | There is an effective way to be boring: insist on talking at length about yourself, your problems, your experiences, and your preferences. 2 |
| • | For some strange reason, the absolutely correct axiom “no one is irreplaceable” often leads to the disastrous distortion: “anyone can replace anyone.” 2 |
| • | Never expect anyone to grant you power, prestige, or authority. Those who desire it must claim it for themselves. 2 |
| • | Death: I would like to know who makes this bad joke on us. 2 |
| • | Persistence corresponds to “I want.” Stubbornness corresponds to “I don’t want.” 1 |
| • | If you need to remind that you are in charge, then, most likely, you are not the one in charge. 1 |
| • | In any profession, if you want to be at the top, you have to withstand pressure. The pressure of goals, of problems, of criticism, of dissatisfaction, of undermining, of demands. 1 |
| • | When I'm anxious it's because I'm living in the future. When I'm depressed it's because I'm living in the past. 1 |
| • | The good thing about losing all hope is that there’s no longer any reason to worry. |
| • | In your inner monologues, never, ever, use the phrase “I’m an idiot.” |
