Quotes August 12, 2023

It’s years later where I figure out where I may have made missteps or not.
I don’t see myself as a pioneer. I see myself as a working guy and that’s all, and that is enough.
William Friedkin,
film director, screenwriter
1935-2023
 
 
 
 
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Laozi
 
 
 
 
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
Aesop
 
 
 
 
“Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.”
Bertrand Russell
 
 
 
 
All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.
Viola Davis – Actress-Producer
 
 
 
 
The problem is not making up the steps, but deciding which ones to keep.
Mikhail Baryshnikov – Dancer-Choreographer-Actor
 
 
 
 
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
John Green,
writer
 
 
 
 
There wasn’t a single tree in Nome. There wasn’t a road that connected it to any other village or town. It would take you ten days to get there from Seattle on the Outside Passage —
Julia Scully,
photography editor, writer
1929-2023
 
 
 
 
“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”
Potter Stewart