Quotes December 23, 2019

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France,
writer, journalist, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
Herschel Walker,
professional American football player
 
 
 
 

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Wayne Thiebaud,
painter
 
 
 
 

You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don’t play together the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth,
professional baseball player
 
 
 
 

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.
Celeste Ng,
writer
 
 
 
 

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Wayne Thiebaud,
painter
 
 
 
 

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley,
journalist, newscaster
 
 
 
 

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
Mary Shelley,
writer
from “Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus”
 
 
 
 

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
H.P. Lovecraft,
writer
 
 
 
 

You shouldn’t change what you are in the search for success.
Sissy Spacek,
actress
 
 
 
 

But out of limitations comes creativity.
Debbie Allen,
actress, dancer, choreographer, director, producer
 
 
 
 

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H.G. Wells,
writer

 
 
 
 

Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can’t learn anything when you’re talking.
Bing Crosby,
singer, actor, comedian