The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
SIMONE WEILI’m going to go do this crazy thing. I’m going to start this company selling books online.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.
AARON PEIRSOL -
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
TOM PETERS -
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
DENIS DIDEROT -
Nothing will work unless you do.
MAYA ANGELOU -
In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn’t been squashed. The early stuff is still there.
BEVERLY L. KAYE -
My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.
KIM KARDASHIAN -
The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one’s head. … all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK -
Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one’s own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
D.T. SUZUKI -
I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.
RITA ORA -
I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.
TOM CRUISE -
For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.
BERYL MARKHAM -
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
AGNES REPPLIER -
You don’t market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It’s a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you’re confronted by criticism. You just don’t listen to it.
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
TUTU DESMOND -
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH -
No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
LIVY -
Woman is the most precious gift known to man.
RICK ROSS -
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
JOHN BURROUGHS -
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
SETH GODIN -
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
THOMAS HARDY -
She’s no rose. But in her I see the beauty of thorns.
TONY COBLE -
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
If I told you about a land of love…would you swallow it as a remedy?
YUNUS EMRE -
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
CHUCK BERRY -
I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
FRANCIS CHAN