Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
T. S. ELIOTNo aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
GEORGE TAKEI -
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
MICHAEL CAINE -
If I put my name on something, I’m going to be involved. I’m not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.
DEREK JETER -
Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.
ADAM BRODY -
Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.
SIMON SINEK -
It is a question of sometimes choosing what is – in your own mind – of material importance and what isn’t, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.
ALAN LEWIS -
Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.
BENVENUTO CELLINI -
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
I can count my friends on one hand.
BARRY ZITO -
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
AGATHA CHRISTIE -
The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the change away from blood-letting and killing, and not surreptitiously fostering it because of their lack of will to change their habits or mode of thinking concerning the animal kingdom.
BODO BALSYS -
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER






