John Moulder Wilson quotes

“Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release”
-- John Moulder Wilson

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“Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us.”
-- John Moulder Wilson

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“There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.”
-- John Moulder Wilson

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“Recognition for a job well done is high on the list of motivating influences for all people; more important in many instances than compensation itself. When someone is promoted, a promotion that everyone could see coming because of an excellent record, the entire department is stimulated. For it is clear, then, that promotions are based on merit. A promotion that seems to come out of the blue, which is always the case when no one knows what the next fellow is doing, causes nothing but resentment and a further weakening of the will to work.”
-- John Moulder Wilson

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“My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.”

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.”

“Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.”

“So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.”

Source : Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.”

Source : Adelbert von Chamisso (1845). “The Shadowless Man; Or, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl”

“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”

“Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone...”

“This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.”

“Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.”