True genius shudders at incompleteness—and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Power
Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
~ Plato
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Clear and simple
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Holidays
One of the most reliable signs that you need a holiday is the conviction that you cannot possibly spare the time to take one.
~ Bryan Magee
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Connection
Effort isn’t the point, impact is. If you solve the problem in three seconds but have the guts to share it with me, it’s still art. And if you move ten thousand pounds of granite but the result doesn’t connect with me, I’m sorry for your calluses, but you haven’t made art, at least not art for me.
~ Seth Godin
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Imagination
We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
~ David Lynch
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Feeling
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
~ Charlie Chaplin
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Transformative
I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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Love and loyalty
It’s easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.
~ William Gibson
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Malice
Any sufficiently advanced negligence is indistinguishable from malice.
~ Deb Chachra
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Wonders
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
~ Helen Keller
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Love versus violence
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
~ John Lennon
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Choose wisely
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
~ Roy T. Bennett
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Quiet voice
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
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Resistance
If you have decided that you can’t do art until you quiet the voice of resistance, you will never do art. Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop. We can befriend the lizard, lull it into stupor, or merely face it down, but it’s there, always. As soon as you embrace the lizard (not merely tolerate it but engage it as a partner in your art), then you are free.
~ Seth Godin
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Growth
You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
~ Richard Feynman
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The blast of a trumpet
Make your own bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Direction
A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
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Understanding
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.
~ William Gibson
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Silence
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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