A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
M. Scott Peck

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William Faulkner

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Henry Miller

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
Layne Staley

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
Marquis de Sade

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
Richard M. Nixon

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
Annie Leibovitz

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
Annie Leibovitz

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
Josef Albers

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef Albers

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes