Oct 08, 2008 02:04
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them." - Salvador Dali
"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child." - Carl Sandburg
"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy garden patch...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." - Salvador Dali
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." - Charles Bukowski
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us." - Nelson Mandela.
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." - Salvador Dali
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln
"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." - Abraham Lincoln
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C. S. Lewis