An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
Eric Ries
That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Father James Keller
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
Russell Baker
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
Peter Ustinov, Dear Me
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli
It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion...
Robertson Davies, Can a Doctor B
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.
Alfred North Whitehead
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M Scott Peck
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Grace Murray Hopper
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
Yuan T. Lee
Life is what happens to you while you
John Lennon
When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.
Jodi Picoult
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.
Michael Josephson
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.
William Shakespeare
The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
Mahatma Gandhi
I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
Patty Duke
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
I want to see the king. Wonderful. I'm glad for you. Why are you so glad? Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.
Orson Scott Card
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Johann von Goethe
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
Studs Terkel
We judge ourselves by our best intentions and most noble acts but we will be judged by our last worst act.
There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.
Bill Hunter
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Stephen Covey
Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Saint Francis of Assisi
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt
My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
Christina Aguilera
Forget about letting nature taking its course to make you wealthy, Cosmic Ordering works faster.
Stephen Richards
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
Elihu Root
Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull
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