Joseph O'Connor famous quotes

05-16-2025

If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.
-- Joseph O'Connor

#Work Out #Done #Entrepreneurship
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-- Joseph O'Connor

#Names #Done #Cruelty
Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.
-- Joseph O'Connor

#Learning #Knowledge #Belief
I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.
-- Joseph O'Connor

#Business #Debt #Flamingos
It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.
-- Joseph O'Connor

#Mean #Matter #Creation
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
-- Joseph O'Connor

#Rags #Prejudice #Enmity
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
-- Joseph O'Connor

#Morning #Dublin #Pubs
There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.
-- Joseph O'Connor

#Ambition #Persons
Everything is in the way the material is composed.
-- Joseph O'Connor

#Way #Materials
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.
-- Joseph O'Connor

#Self #Stories #Form
The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.
-- Joseph O'Connor

#Girl #War #School

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