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While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. --Gilda Radner
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. --Joseph Heller
In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is. --Geoffrey Cottrell
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation --Mark Twain
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. --JFK
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. --Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. --Galileo Galilei
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. --Henry Ford (1863-1947)
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. --Pablo Picasso
Creativity is more than a good idea, it's the future... --
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. --Thomas Edison
A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. --Albert Einstein
Now. Or never. --Henry David Thoreau
You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster. --Lewis Carroll
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. --Albert Einstein
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. --Dale Carnegie
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. --Salvador Dali
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenominally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. --Scott Adams
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other say in a whole book. --Friedrich Nietzsche
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically defineable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be described as the general neurosis of our time. --Carl G. Jung
No one is perfect. The mere fact that one is human is a flaw in itself. --Robert Heinlen
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. --Lazarus Long
Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely. --Edward Abbey
Development is the realization of human potential. --Ghandi
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. --
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. --Arthur Ashe
Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before. --fortune
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. --Plutarch
The reason many people fail to recognize opportunity is because it comes disguised as Hard Work. Cleverness carries the day, but Wisdom endures. --
A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting. --The Doctor, Doctor Who
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice. --Samuel Johnson on music
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. --Walter Pater
Music is spiritual. The music business is not. --Van Morrison
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. --Frank Zappa
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. --Sir Thomas Beecham
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it. --Ron Wood
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. --Frank Zappa
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint. --Georgia O'Keeffe
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist. --Horace, Roman poet
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing; Did certain persons die before they sing. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. --Hilaire Belloc
Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him. --Samuel Butler
I will seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely. --Ludwig von Beethoven
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point. --Maria Callas
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change—it can not only move us, it makes us move. --Ossie Davis
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. --Carrie Fisher
It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people. --Rita Moreno
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. --Anais Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. --Nin, Anais
I invent nothing. I rediscover. --Auguste Rodin
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for? --Alice Walker
The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger. --June Wayne
Ideas are the root of creation. --Ernest Dimnet
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. --Joyce A. Myers
It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life. --Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. --George S. Patton
Imagination is the air of mind --Philip James Bailey
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. --Ingrid Bengis
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. --Winston Churchill
Don't play what's there, play what's not there. --Miles Davis
If you can dream it, you can do it. --Walt Disney
Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein
Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science does not know its debt to imagination. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is no vision a people perish. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. --Andre Gide
There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. --Victor Hugo
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams. --Thomas Huxley
Imagination is the eye of the soul. --Joseph Joubert
Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly. --Louis L. Mann
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. --Blaise Pascal
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. --Eden Phillpotts
You see things and you say Why?; but I dream things that never were and I say, Why not? --George Bernard Shaw
Vision—the art of seeing things invisible. --Swift, Jonathan
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. --Henry David Thoreau
Effective programs provide children and youth with opportunities to succeed. Central tenets of these programs include generating the expectation of success and then providing the means to accomplish defined goals. --
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. --Woodrow Wilson
I encourage community workers in all disciplines and regions to work with local artists and cultural programs to promote the powerful development of your neighborhoods. --Thomas Tresser
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. --Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... --Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.... --Albert Einstein
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.... --Albert Einstein
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.... --Albert Einstein
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?... --Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.... --Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.... --Albert Einstein
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.... --Albert Einstein
It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.... --Albert Einstein
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.... --Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.... --Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.... --Albert Einstein
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Living Philosophies, 1931... --Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.... --Albert Einstein
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.... --Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.... --Albert Einstein
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.... --Albert Einstein
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.... --Albert Einstein
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.... --EDWIN LAND
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.... --ARTHUR KOESTLER
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.... --RITA MAE BROWN
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.... --WINSTON CHURCHILL
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.... --WINSTON CHURCHILL
The price of greatness is responsibility.... --WINSTON CHURCHILL
If you're going through hell, keep going.... --WINSTON CHURCHILL
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Our distrust is very expensive.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Self-trust is the first secret of success.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
We are always getting ready to live but never living.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Money often costs too much.... --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.... --
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.... --
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.... --
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.... --
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.... --
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.... --
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.... --Woodrow Wilson
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.... --Woodrow Wilson
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.... --Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.... --Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.... --Abraham Lincoln
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.... --Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?... --Abraham Lincoln
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.... --Robert F. Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.... --
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.... --John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.... --Maya Angelo
No one has ever become poor by giving.... --Anne Frank
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.... --Peyton Conway March
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.... --Franklin D Roosevelt
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.... --HH THE DALAI LAMA
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.... --HH THE DALAI LAMA
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.... --Pablo Picasso
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. --John F. Kennedy
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. --John F. Kennedy
We need men who can dream of things that never were. --John F. Kennedy
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. --Martin Luther King Jr.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. --Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. --Will Rogers
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. --Will Rogers
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. --Oprah Winfrey
Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by. --Oprah Winfrey
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work. --Oprah Winfrey
What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. --Oprah Winfrey
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. --Oprah Winfrey
I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. --Oprah Winfrey
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself. --Oprah Winfrey
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. --Oprah Winfrey
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk. --Oprah Winfre
I cannot live without books. --Thomas Jefferson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. --Henry David Thoreau
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. --Henry David Thoreau
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. --Plato
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. --Plato
In charity there is no excess. --Sir Francis Bacon
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. --Voltaire
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