Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfAmbition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lao TzuThe love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel JohnsonI’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.
Taylor SwiftI am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
Taylor SwiftI do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola TeslaThe people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Steve JobsDoing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.
Kamala HarrisI’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.
Karl LagerfeldI just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.
The WeekndThe way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham LincolnThere will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.
DrakeImagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas CarlyleIf you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.
Thich Nhat HanhI keep working because I learn something new all the time.
Clint EastwoodBe careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
James BaldwinI’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
Ray BradburyAn ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou are victors, not victims!
Joel OsteenTwo things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel KantOur schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
Thomas SowellAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin DisraeliSometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.
Joel OsteenNever forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
Carl von ClausewitzBeing a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will RogersWhen you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Theodore RooseveltI have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.
Steven WrightLife is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.
Katharine HepburnIf you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.
Noam ChomskyMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
AristotleDifficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. ForbesI have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
Alice WalkerTalk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas CarlyleIf you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.
Karl LagerfeldI want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. ColeWhen things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.
George LucasI have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert FrostNo one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
Stephen HawkingThe poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
AristotleI never fall in love.
Karl LagerfeldIf I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!
Richard P. FeynmanThere comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert EinsteinJump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
Ray BradburyWe will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
Joyce Meyer‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.
Alice MunroA man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon BonaparteThat’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve JobsI am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond TutuThe beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
Audrey HepburnFor a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
Maya AngelouWriting is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Hermann HesseGive a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Jim RohnI only want my work to make people happy.
Jackie ChanThe Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.
Stephen HawkingTo be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry FordLife is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert EinsteinVictory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte