I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don’t want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Fame, Accomplishment, Achievement
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Gratitude, Talent, Appreciation, Blessings
If it weren’t for problems, the work day would be over by 10 a.m.
—Woody Allen
Showing up is 80 percent of life.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Time Management, Value of Time
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Expectation, Disillusion
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Sleep, Goodness
Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.
—Woody Allen
In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Revolution
It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Dying, Death
Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
—Woody Allen
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Success, Procrastination, Inaction, Getting Going, Success & Failure
The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won’t get much sleep..
—Woody Allen
Topics: Marriage
The people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can’t.
—Woody Allen
If you’re not failing, you’re not trying anything.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Mistakes, Failures
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.
—Woody Allen
Topics: Marriage
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