Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.

Linda Goodman

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Samuel Butler

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

Tori Amos

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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You get people to help you by telling the truth; by being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

Randy Pausch

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

Steve Albini

Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?

Sorin Cerin

To give style to one's character -- a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Graham Greene

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Ken Burns

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

Anita Roddick