QOTD August 11 2016
August 11th, 2016 on 23:45David Zucker: “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.”
David Zucker: “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.”
Katherine Mansfield: “Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.”
Katharine Butler Hathaway: “It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
Aldous Huxley: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
John W. Gardner: “History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
Robert Bresson: “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
Scott Adams: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Jennifer Hudson: “If youβre not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world wonβt combat the caloric intake.”
Tom Nolan: “In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.”
Henri Matisse: “Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.”
John Wooden: “You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
Lucille Ball: “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
Marcel Proust: “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Logan Pearsall Smith: “Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”
Norman Mailer: “Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.”
Frank Scully: “Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”
John Fischer: “Let’s assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.”
Jennifer Hudson: “The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.”
Michel de Montaigne: “When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach: “Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.”