Life Quotes

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

William Gibson

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

William Gibson

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

William Gibson

I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.

William Gibson

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

William Gilbert

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

William Gilbert

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

William Gilbert

And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

William Gilbert

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sor...

William Gilbert

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

William Glasser

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

William Glasser

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

William Glasser

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

William Glasser

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

William Glasser

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

William Glasser

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

William Glasser

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

William Glasser

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

William Glasser

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

William Glasser

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

William Godwin

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

William Godwin