Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. Bryce Courtenay More Quotes by Bryce Courtenay More Quotes From Bryce Courtenay sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency Bryce Courtenay sometimes-in-life emergencies sometimes It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something. Bryce Courtenay there-comes-a-time ashamed knows The imagination is always the best torturer. Bryce Courtenay imagination You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural. Bryce Courtenay hate natural past Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. Bryce Courtenay pebbles too-much diamond what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter? Bryce Courtenay good-man men thinking In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery. Bryce Courtenay humanity mind men The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost. Bryce Courtenay powerful men thinking Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc Bryce Courtenay shadow practice challenges It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts! Bryce Courtenay doe men What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway. Bryce Courtenay As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance. Bryce Courtenay heart men believe First with the head, then with the heart. Bryce Courtenay power-of-one heart firsts I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller. Bryce Courtenay entertainers storyteller Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state. Bryce Courtenay sandwiches states meat Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do. Bryce Courtenay embrace mind winning Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise. Bryce Courtenay agency country years . . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child. Bryce Courtenay love giving children Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion. Bryce Courtenay compassion brother men I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given. Bryce Courtenay intellectual brain people
