S. I. Hayakawa

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#going #i #lose #mind #nothing

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#becomes #image #important #more #substance

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#culture #else #everybody #everybody else #given

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#good #literature #lived #more #people

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#life #live #lives #many #more

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#before #chance #die #finding #how

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#between #difference #failed #failure #happens

So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#give me #hamburger #hold #i #lawsuit

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#because #both #different #guys #only