Tag: Various

Quotes May 27-28, 2023

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt – 1884-1962 – Former First Lady of the United States
 
 
 
 
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D’Angelo – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
If you want to get the best out of a person you must look for the best that is in him.
Bernard Haldane – 1911-2002 – Author
 
 
 
 
Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.
Maurice Setter – 1936-2020 – English Football Player & Manager
 
 
 
 
Always see positive in everything, whenever the going gets tough, understand there is something good going to happen.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes May 23, 2023

Seek to be whole, not perfect.
Oprah Winfrey – Television Personality, Actor, Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
We are growing into who we’ve always dreamt of being.
Kristiana Kahakauwila,
Native Hawaiian writer
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
I didn’t want to marry a Beatle. I wanted to be a Beatle.
They used to say that women couldn’t wear long pants. Huh? Yes, we can, I wore mine.
Rita Lee,
singer, songwriter “Brazil’s Queen of Rock”
1947-2023
 
 
 
 
We are one huge universe speaking and listening to itself.
Catherine Carney-Feldman
 
 
 
 
I’ve never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.
I escaped from school as soon as I could, when the prospect of four more years of enforced learning before I’d become the writer I wanted to be was stifling.
Neil Gaiman
 
 
 
 
The choice we make of how we dispose our consciousness is the ultimate creative act: it renders the world what it is. It is, therefore, a moral act: it has consequences.
Iain McGilchrist
 
 
 
 
“Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.”
Groucho Marx
 
 

Quotes May 13, 2023

Representation really matters.
Ke Huy Quan,
actor
 
 
 
 
Reading never wears me out.
Ian Falconer,
writer, illustrator, set designer
1959-2023
 
 
 
 
The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens.
Gordon Moore,
entrepreneur, Intel co-founder, creator of Moore’s Law
1929-2023
 
 
 
 
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Gustav Mahler,
composer, conductor
 
 
 
 
Even the best of ideas, carried to extremes, can deteriorate into absurdity.
Mimi Sheraton,
restaurant critic, food writer
1926-2023
 
 
 
 
We don’t create, we discover — and the process of discovery gives you energy.
Ahmad Jamal,
jazz pianist, composer
1930-2023
 
 

Quotes May 11, 2023

Dream big and dare to fail.
Norman Vaughan – 1905-2005 – Dogsled Driver-Explorer
 
 
 
 
Goals help you channel your energy into action.
Les Brown – Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
Your acceptance of your individuality will mean your success.
Christina Ricci,
actor
 
 
 
 
In the awareness, I am brought closer to my being from long before.
Whatever you put into the Universe eventually returns.
Mai Der Vang,
Hmong American poet
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”
Henry Miller
 
 
 
 
“The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”
Niels Bohr
 
 
 
 
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
Anton Chekhov
 
 
 
 
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Duke Ellington
 
 
 
 
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Indira Gandhi
 
 

Quotes May 08-09, 2023

You are your home.
Erin Hanson – Artist
 
 
 
 
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon – 1561-1626 – Philosopher
 
 
 
 
All nature is pure, and purely abstracted; the spiritual union links both the seen and unseen forces of nature
Bernice Bing,
artist
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.
Maya Lin,
architect, sculptor, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Civil Rights Memorial
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
I’ve seen a lot. But I don’t show the ugliness of life; I try to show the good.
A photograph fulfills my deep need to stop things from disappearing.
Dorothy Bohm,
photographer
1924-2023
 
 
 
 
Rainy day people don’t talk, they just listen till they’ve heard it all.
If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell.
Gordon Lightfoot,
singer, songwriter
1938-2023
 
 
 
 
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning
 
 
 
 
I’m outside, looking at a story, and I have no idea what’s on the next page — none.
Harry Belafonte,
singer, actor, civil rights activist
1927-2023
 
 

Quotes May 02, 2023

It’s not only the right of the elite to have good design.
Architecture isn’t just about the brick and mortar. It’s about seeing how you can help build communities.
Yasmeen Lari,
architect, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan
 
 
 
 
“I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”
Malala Yousafzai
 
 
 
 
Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and are always on the move.
Bangambiki Habyarimana – Author-Community Worker
 
 
 
 
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James – 1842-1910 – American Philosopher
 
 
 
 
You never fail until you stop trying.
Albert Einstein – 1879-1955 – Physicist-Nobel Prize Winner
 
 
 
 
“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.”
Angela Davis
 
 
 
 
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
 
 
 
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
René Descartes
 
 
 
 
“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.”
Ray Bradbury
 
 

Quotes April 24, 2023

Rhythm is very important in music, and your life has to have rhythms too.
We don’t create, we discover — and the process of discovery gives you energy.
Ahmad Jamal,
jazz pianist, composer
1930-2023
 
 
 
 
Rules are invented for lazy people who don’t want to think for themselves.
Fashion is not frivolous; it is a part of being alive today.
Mary Quant,
fashion designer, “mother of the miniskirt”
1930-2023
 
 
 
 
One wishes to be a voice that makes a difference: some reparation to get the flow going in a different direction.
You only survived through your own wits, but if you survived, you knew you had made it.
Michael Roberts,
writer, editor, designer, artist, photographer
1947-2023
 
 
 
 
I think I’ve always been sensitive to disarray, to disorganization.
Doodling is a dot that leads to more dots to more ideas, that gel at some point. You never know where it’s going to go.
Edward Koren,
cartoonist, illustrator
1935-2023
 
 
 
 
From ‘Action’ to ‘Cut’ is the only reason I like my job.
I can use my voice in a much stronger way than I ever have.
Jenna Ortega,
actor
 
 
 
 
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – 1803-1882 – Lecturer-Poet-Essayist
 
 
 
 
Don’t always wait for someone else to inspire you. Inspire yourself.
Rodney Walker – Author-Entrepreneur-Inspirational Speaker
 
 
 
 
If things don’t go as expected, make the unexpected work in your favor.
Jose Andres
 
 
 
 
Even the best of ideas, carried to extremes, can deteriorate into absurdity.
Mimi Sheraton
 
 

Quotes April 13, 2023

I can make so many people mad in 140 characters.
Even the best of ideas, carried to extremes, can deteriorate into absurdity.
Mimi Sheraton,
restaurant critic, food writer
1926-2023
 
 
 
 
Food, in essence, gives you hope that tomorrow maybe things will be better.
Jose Andres,
chef, restaurateur
 
 
 
 
I get the feeling that if I ever start getting complacent in my process then I’m probably doing it wrong because it always seems to be changing.
I don’t think I’ve been in a position to give advice, and I don’t think I could take it.
Kieran Culkin,
actor
 
 
 
 
We are never prepared for what we expect.
Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
James A. Michener,
writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
 
 
 
 
Each day provides its own gifts.
Marcus Aurelius – 121-180 – Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams – 1951-2014 – Comedian-Actor
 
 
 
 
You’ve got to have rules to live by, and one of mine is always say yes. Put yourself in danger of something amazing happening to you.
Tom Bilyeu – Co-Founder & Host of Impact Theory

Quotes April 08, 2023

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
Pete Seeger
 
 
 
 
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
There is only one rule for being a good talker: learn how to listen.
Christopher Morley,
journalist, writer, poet
 
 
 
 
I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances.
Generosity is key, in my experience, to fulfilling the potential of a part or a story.
Pedro Pascal,
actor
 
 
 
 
If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, ‘Collecting material’. No one can object to that.
A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious.
Stella Gibbons,
writer
 
 
 
 
Life seems to be a series of accidents.
John Jakes
 
 
 
 
If things don’t go as expected, make the unexpected work in your favor.
Jose Andres,
chef, restaurateur
 
 
 
 
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Gustav Mahler,
composer, conductor

Quotes April 01, 2023

When you choose to collect experiences rather than things, you never ever run out of storage space.
Joshua Becker – Author-Writer-Philanthropist-Pastor
 
 
 
 
When you focus on problems, you’ll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you’ll have more opportunities.
Zig Ziglar – 1926-2012 – Author-Salesman-Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
“The most fundamental principle of all in gambling is simply equal conditions, e.g. of opponents, of bystanders, of money, of situation, of the dice box, and of the die itself. To the extent to which you depart from that equality, if it is in your opponent’s favor, you are a fool, and if in your own, you are unjust.”
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, in 1564
 
 
 
 
“The problem is not the mistake per se, but all the algorithms and stops that were triggered. It shows the market is always vulnerable to human error and that algorithms and various [systematic traders] are far too present in markets.”
John Plassard, director, Mirabaud & Cie, after a Citigroup banker’s fat-finger error caused European markets to crash in 2022.
 
 
 
 
The spirit of an artist’s gifts can wake our own.
Lewis Hyde
 
 
 
 
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.
W.S. Merwin
 
 
 
 
We bring forth our worlds through the networks of conversation within which we participate.
Humberto Maturana
 
 
 
 
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change the world.
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 
“You are walking this life. Make sure you leave beautiful steps behind.”
Morne Pretorius