“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.”
—J.B. Priestley.
thought for today
Simon Sinek: Intelligence versus creativity
“Intelligence uses what is known to solve problems. Creativity uses what is unknown to discover possibilities.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Peter Sellers: Classic example
“I’m a classic example of all humorists – only funny when I’m working.”
—Peter Sellers.
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Simon Sinek: Connect
“Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Robert M Pirsig: Dogmas
“When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.”
-Robert M. Pirsig.
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Kin Hubbard: Flattery
“Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.”
—-Kin Hubbard.
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Alanis Obomsawin: You can’t eat money
“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”
—Alanis Obomsawin.
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Spanish proverb: An ounce of mother
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
—Spanish proverb.
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Jeanette Winterson: Book collecting
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
—Jeanette Winterson.
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John Buchan: Debt to the past
“We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.”
—John Buchan.
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Barbara Ehrenreich: Just like men
“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women’s liberation…none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich.
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Monty Hall: Overnight success
“Actually, I’m an overnight success, but it took twenty years.”
—Monty Hall.
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Goethe: Goes backward
“He who moves not forward, goes backward.”
—Goethe.
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George Matthew Adams: No such thing
“There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts.”
—George Matthew Adams.
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Courtney Gains: Acting and psychology
“I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I’ve always found that fascinating.”
—Courtney Gains.
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Marc Evan Jackson: Improvising
“I cant imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I cant imagine trying to write or act or direct without what improvising offers you.”
—Marc Evan Jackson.
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Edgar Guest: See a sermon
“I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.”
—Edgar Guest.
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John Carmack: Pick features that don’t fight each other
“The cost of adding a feature isn’t just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don’t fight each other.”
—John Carmack.
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Ogden Nash: Terrestrial ball
“There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.”
—Ogden Nash.
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James Nasmyth: Our ancestors virtually live in us
“OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.”
—James Nasmyth.
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Gulzar: All the time
“Dreams heed no borders, the eyes need no visas. With eyes shut I walk across the line in time. All the time.”
-Gulzar.
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Denis Leary: Irate
“I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.”
—Denis Leary.
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Mae West: Body and English
“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
—-Mae West.
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Ted Hughes: Only calibration
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
—Ted Hughes.
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E F Schumacher: Comforts
“I’m not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.”
—E.F. Schumacher.
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Shimon Peres: Try to be a moral person
“The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.”
—Shimon Peres.
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William Caxton:As long as money endureth
“Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.”
—William Caxton.
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Alfred Hitchcock: No terror in the bang
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
—–Alfred Hitchcock.
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Lillie Devereux Blake: Gender roles
“People share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.”
-Lillie Devereux Blake.
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Caligula Iulius Caesar: I am a God
“I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God.”
—Caligula Iulius Caesar.
