Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.


David Whyte

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If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
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Sometimes the best solution is to stop trying to change people.
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Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
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Surreal in complexity are the simplicity of reality.
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I wouldn’t change a thing
Because all those things led me to
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Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
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Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.
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Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and y...
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To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
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We're not trying to eliminate books. We love books.
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Why waste your time being depressed about something you have the power to change?
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Oh... I just leave it...

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I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years
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There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else.
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Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind
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Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

-The Seventy...
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Maxim 16:
Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.

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False leaders destroy people by attempting to control them.
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
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Love is holy.
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It is not enough to conquer, one must [also] learn to seduce.
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Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!
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Maxim 20:
If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.
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Rule ...
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Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
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I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY
We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
DAVID CASSIDY
All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
DAVID CASSIDY
Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
DAVID CASSIDY
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY
Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o...
DAVID CASSIDY
My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
DAVID CASSIDY
I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin...
DAVID CASSIDY
My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
DAVID CASSIDY
I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
DAVID CASSIDY
I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.
DAVID CASSIDY
What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Bro...
DAVID CASSIDY
In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though...
DAVID CASSIDY
All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
DAVID CASSIDY
I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in...
DAVID CASSIDY
I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
DAVID CASSIDY
Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m...
DAVID CASSIDY
I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
DAVID CASSIDY
I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud o...
DAVID CASSIDY
I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding a...
DAVID CASSIDY
I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thi...
DAVID CASSIDY
My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
DAVID CASSIDY
In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
DAVID CASSIDY
I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw s...
DAVID CASSIDY
I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manag...
DAVID CASSIDY
I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five yea...
DAVID CASSIDY
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
DAVID CASSIDY
We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates internat...
DAVID HAREWOOD