“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.”
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Wise Quotes — page 103 of 916
“Better to illuminate than merely to shine.”
“One of the keys is, and it may sound funny, talking about characters with super powers, but one of the keys is to make your characters as realistic and believable as possible. Even if they have super powers, you say to yourself, "Well, if somebody had a super power like this, what would his life be like? Wouldn't he still maybe have to go to the dentist or wouldn't he have to worry about making a living? What about his love life?" You've got to make characters that your reader can believe exists or might exist.”
“In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.”
“All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.”
“Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”
“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.”
“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
“By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible.”
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
“Honesty is better than any policy.”
“I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child.”
“If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.”
“They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.”
“For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned”
“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”
“The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.”
“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
“If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.”
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”