#elf

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#great #great thing #happiness #much #peace

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ask #doctrine #false #himself #honest

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#imagination #itself #limits #probability #restrains

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#depends #going #hear #hendrix #i

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#education #get #god #happen #just

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#atomic #atomic bomb #back #bomb #decision

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#business #know #know yourself #knowledge #men

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. ↗

— Janis Ian

#first #first time #hear #moment #radio

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it. ↗

— Janis Ian

#best #better #decade #get #gets

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself. ↗

— Scott Ian

#even #i #i see #know #myself