Pamela Meyer Quotes

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

First with the head, then with the heart.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.

What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.

Something inside me clicked, like an engine shifting into higher gear. My thinking suddenly became faster and clearer. The anger and fear didn't go away, but I realized they weren't important. They weren't going to help me.

First thought, best thought.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.