"You'll never be criticized by somone who is doing more than you.You'll Always be criticized by someone doing less. Remember that."
- Denzel Washington
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
- Charles Dickens
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge no knowledge without love can produce a good life."
- Bertrand Russell
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti
" You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense."
- Aeschylus
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
- Margaret Mead
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
- Isaac Asimov
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
- Hermann Hesse
"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."
- B. F. Skinner
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
- Havelock Ellis
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
- H. L. Mencken
"If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy."
- Kurt Vonnegut
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
- Dale Carnegie
“Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.”
- Colin Powell
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”
- W. C. Fields
"Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day."
- Samuel Goldwyn
" You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot."
- Stanley Kubrick
" If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."
- James Cameron
"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."
- Truman Capote
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."
- Claude Shannon
"You see much more of your children once they leave home."
- Lucille Ball
"Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise."
- Alexander Pope
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
- Alice Munro
"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
- G.K. Chesterton
"Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world."
- Steven Pinker
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
- William Osler
"If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."
- Yogi Berra
"Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses."
- Stephen Colbert
"There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool."
- Diogenes
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
- Heraclitus
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious"
- Oscar Wilde
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
"Capital isn't scarce; vision is."
- Sam Walton
"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
- Sinclair Lewis
" Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
- Peter Drucker
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."
- Theodor W. Adorno
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
- Robin Williams
"Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand."
- Jack London
" Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time."
- Philip Roth
" Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
- Toni Morrison
" I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled."
- Sylvia Plath
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
- Soren Kierkegaard
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see."
- Ayn Rand
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
- Bertrand Russell
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."
- Theodor W. Adorno
"The cosmos is a rigged theatre."
- Antonin Artaud
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence."
- Herodotus
"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."
- Oliver Goldsmith
"I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment."
- Seamus Heaney
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
- Oscar Wilde
"If youth knew; if age could."
- Sigmund Freud
"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
- Kurt Vonnegut
"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells."
- Dr. Seuss
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Mark Twain
"Normal is the average of deviance."
- Rita Mae Brown
"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
- Frederick Douglass
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."
- Joseph Campbell
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
- Alice Walker
"Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time."
- H. L. Mencken
"You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist."
- Stephen Colbert
"An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex."
- Aldous Huxley
"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
- Georgia O'Keeffe
"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
- Salvador Dali
"The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity."
- Henri Bergson
"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."
- Michel de Montaigne
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
- Aldous Huxley
"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it."
- Paulo Coelho
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
- Gustave Flaubert
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow." - Emile Zola
"A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion."
- Honore de Balzac
"Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read."
- Matt Haig
"Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."
- Graham Greene
"When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life."
- Zadie Smith
"Better to be without logic than without feeling."
- Charlotte Bronte
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."
- Meister Eckhart
"For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live."
- Theodor W. Adorno
"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
- Abraham Maslow
“If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.”
- Giacomo Casanova
“The absence of a flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ”
- Havelock Ellis
"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.”
- Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
"If you care too much about being praised, in the end you will not accomplish anything serious."
- Leo Tolstoy
“I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.”
— Jim Harrison
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
- William Faulkner
"The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come."
- Steven Pressfield
" It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life."
- Telamon of Arcadia
"I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately, it stikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."
- Somerset Maugham
"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime."
- Theodor W. Adorno
"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."
- Martin Heidegger
"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left. "
- Bertrand Russell
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. "
- Herbert Spencer
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
- Herbert Spencer
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
- Marie Curie
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
-William Osler
“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
- Peter Drucker
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
- George Eliot
"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
- Chinese Proverb
"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
- Stephen King
“Meaning is not in things but in between them.”
- Norman O. Brown
"Education is all a matter of building bridges."
- Ralph Ellison
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
- Maya Angelou
"In order to go on living, one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."
- Hannah Arendt
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it."
- Ayn Rand
“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
- Michel Foucault
"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
"Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it's due."
- Dean William R. Inge
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
- Paul Gauguin
"Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze."
- Thomas Carlyle
"Books think for me."
- Charles Lamb
"The devil's name is dullness."
- Robert E. Lee
"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
- William Wrigley, Jr.
"Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
- Ambrose Bierce
"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
- Virginia Woolf
"All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma."
- Kazuo Ishiguro
" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately."
- Henry Kissinger
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
- James Baldwin
"To live in the past is to die in the present."
- Bill Belichick.
“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”
- William Trevor
"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."
- Langston Hughes
"You must have learned a lot to be able to ask about what you don't know."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant."
- James D. Watson
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
- Richard Feynmann
"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. "
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Water's never clumsy."
- Matthew McConaughey
"Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket."
- William Golding
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.”
- Paul Tillich
"The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will."
- Andy Warhol
“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
- Bertrand Russell
"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."
- Benedict de Spinoza
“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over men who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain
"Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
- H. L. Mencken
"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
- Henry James
"All knowledge degenerates into probability."
- David Hume
“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
- William James.
"It is a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it."
- Kurt Vonnegut
"The greatest thing in life is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."
- Johann Wolfgang von Geothe
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
- Georg Hegel
"Men are born stupid, not ignorant. They are made stupid by education."
-Bertrand Russell
"Reading furnishes the mind with only the material of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
- John Locke
"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by others."
- Immanuel Kant
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
- Abraham Lincoln
"A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year."
- Polish Proverb
"Life is all about the evolution."
- J. Cole
“Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success”
- Alex Ferguson
"When I grow up I want to be a little boy."
- Joseph Heller
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."
- Voltaire
"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world."
- Paul Farmer
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
- William James
"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth."
- Albert Camus
"He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons."
- Sinclair Lewis
"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then"
- Lewis Carroll
"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old"
- Jonathan Swift
"The best teacher is experienced and not through someone's distorted point of view"
- Jack Kerouac
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
- Zora Neale Hurston
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
- Maya Angelou
"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by those doing it."
- James Baldwin
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
- Peter Drucker
"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."
- Neil Gaiman
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.”
- Richard P. Feynman
“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
- Henri Bergson
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something "
- Jean Paul Richter
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
- Edward Abbey
"Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal."
- J.M. Synge
"To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
- Oscar Wilde
"Money is the wise man's religion. "
- Euripides
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."
- Robert Frost
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation."
- Voltaire
"It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable."
- Sara Blakely
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
- Thomas Mann
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
- Benjamin Franklin
"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
- Jack Kerouac
"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
- William Osler.
“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
- Oliver Sacks
“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”
- Atul Gawande
"Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost."
- Rinus Michels
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers."
- G. K. Chesterton
"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."
- William Hazlitt
"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."
- Goethe
"Deep versed in books and shallow in himself."
- John Milton
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."
- Robertson Davies
"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
- Henry David Thoreau
"In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It is no rest to be idle."
- Paul Peel
"Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves."
- Ernest Renan
"LIfe can only be understood backwards; but it must be livde forwards."
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Great managers are not philophers, entertainers, doers or artists. They are engineers. They see their organizations as machines and work assiduously to maintain and improve them."
- Ray Dalio
"For God sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself."
- Robert Louis Steveneson
"He makes no friend who never made a foe."
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Every dogma has its day."
- Abraham Rotstein
"Literature is news that stays news."
- Ezra Pound
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