Aubrey Menen quotes

“The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.”
-- Aubrey Menen

Source : Aubrey Menen (2010). “Classic Aubrey Menen: Complete and Unabridged”, p.691, Penguin UK

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“That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.”
-- Aubrey Menen

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“It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.”
-- Aubrey Menen

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“Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.”
-- Aubrey Menen

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“The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.”
-- Aubrey Menen

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“When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.”

“This is new for me. I'm learning how to have a realtionship with someone other than Ashton. I made a horrible mistake. It was like a relapse. But you," I reached up and tucked the tear dampened hair that had worked its way loose behind her ear. "You touch a place inside of me that Ashton never did. I feel things with you I never felt for her. I loved her for a very long time. I can't help the fact I still want to be there if she needs me. Next time there is a choice to make it will be you I choose first. I can promise you that.”

“People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.”

“Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.28, Transaction Publishers

“Vote early and vote often.”

“Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!”

“It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?”

“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”

“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”