Wise thoughts and quotes 3
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
Thomas Edison
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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
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A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
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He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.
J.K. Rowling
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
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We love the things we love for what they are.
Robert Frost
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Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
Robert L. Peters
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
James Dean
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong".
Marianne Williamson
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dalí
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If I won't be myself, who will?
Alfred Hitchcock
