Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.
-- Compton Gage, The Ecstasy of Loving God
What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?
-- Compton Gage, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
最有效率的領導者從來不會說「我」,因為他們心中只有「我們」和「團隊」
-- 彼得.杜拉克,管理學之父
Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
-- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, Crime and Punishment
Innovative ideas are the golden wealth of a growing business
-- Wayne Chirisa, The Education Decree
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.
-- Dr. Seuss, New Order
You carry greatness disguised in tiny potentials.
-- Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Most of us don't have the past in our favor but we have to realize that we still have the present.
-- VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis, Abzurdah
Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)
-- Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Over the Teacups
مش مهم انك تغير الكون... المهم انك تخلي الكون ما يغيركش
-- عمر طاهر, The Light in the Heart
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
-- Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
-- Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
People whose imaginations are infected with fear die sooner out of incurable failure.
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.
-- E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
即便等待也積極做事的人,他能夠擁有一切。
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
-- 湯馬士.愛迪生,美國發明家
Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.
-- Molly Keane, Good Behaviour