Barnum was wrong—it's more like every 30 seconds.

fame P. T. Barnum

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A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

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A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.

As you think, you travel. As you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the result of your thoughts; but you can endure and learn, accept and be glad. You will realize the vision of your heart, not the idle wish. You will gravitate towards that which you secretly most love. Into your hands will be placed the exact result of your thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your vision—your ideal.

More quotations tagged with “fame”

Fame warps your identity, metastasizes your anxieties, and hollows you out like a jack-o'-lantern. It's sparkly pixie dust that burns whatever it touches like acid.

—Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays

fame identity anxiety

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work—I merely inflict myself upon the public.

—Robert Morley

First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.

—Martin Myers

fame obscurity anonymity

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

—Robert Benchley

talent writing fame

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

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Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.