#elf

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#believe #business #else #good #got

I have surrounded myself with very smart people. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#myself #people #smart #smart people #surrounded

You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#album #beatles #big #buy #cause

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#am #destroys #first #habit #i

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#further #going #himself #how #incapable

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great #greatness #himself #itself #know

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#discover #does #know #least #life

The self is hateful. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#self

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#got #himself #his #kids #man

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common