Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Ingmar Bergman

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Maya Lin

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

Gerhard Schroder

If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.

Stephen King

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

William James

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Beaumont and Fletcher

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Christopher Bond

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Greta Garbo

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

George Orwell

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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