“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
– Orson Welles
Categories
Category: Quotes
Categories
Science – Louis Pasteur
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
– Louis Pasteur
“You look like you’re going to spend your life having one epiphany after another, always thinking you’ve finally figured out what’s holding you back, and how you can finally be productive and creative and turn you life around. But nothing will ever change. That cycle of mediocrity isn’t due to some obstacle. It’s who you are. The thing standing in the way of your dreams is that the person having them is you.”
– xkcd #1027
Categories
Bodybuilder – Unknown
“What do you call a bodybuilder with big balls? A beginner.”
– Unknown
Categories
Creativity – George Lois
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”
— George Lois
Categories
Mastery – Michelangelo
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”
– Michelangelo
Categories
Cost of sanity – Terence McKenna
“The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation”
– Terence McKenna
Categories
Teachers – Chinese proverb
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
– Chinese proverb
Categories
Person-oriented – Martin Luther King Jr.
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Categories
Music – Plato
“Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
– Plato
Categories
Present – Marianne Williamson
“We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.”
– Marianne Williamson
Categories
Appearance – William Jennings Bryan
“Appearance too often takes the place of reality — the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash. Sham is carried into every department of life, and we are being corrupted by show and surface. We are too apt to judge people by what they have, rather than by what they are; we have too few Hamlets who are bold enough to proclaim, “I know not seem!”
– William Jennings Bryan
Categories
Grow – Ben Okri
“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
– Ben Okri
Categories
Passive sins – Eleanor Roosevelt
“So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Categories
Language – Franz Kafka
“All language is but a poor translation.”
– Franz Kafka