You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

John Green

Your capacity to own something is your capacity to change something.

Steve Maraboli

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Ours is the century of enforced travel. . . of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berger, Ev'ry Time We Say G

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Katherine Dunn

Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

Simonides

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Mortimer J. Adler

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Nick Mancuso

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Bertrand Russell