Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
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The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard;… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give… — Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Copy Share Image
Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didn’t stop and cluck over… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
When I started out, I didn't feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
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In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
At the edge of our world, at the edge of the otherworld, the beautiful and mysterious faeries stand, watching and waiting to… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is… — Tilly Bagshawe Copy Share Image
My faith has cost me a lot of money. Because I do creative roles, and I guess someone could think of me… — Siobhan Fallon Hogan Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that there's billions of dollars sitting in the Iraqi government reserves, somehow they are incapable of getting it out… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history… — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Copy Share Image
In Gillette's case, they keep surfing along new technology which is fairly simple by the standards of microchips. But it's hard for… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Jeff [Koons] called me because he'd seen a portrait of David Bowie, at the beginning of the 80s - I've known Jeff… — Greg Gorman Copy Share Image
There's not much to be said for sightseeing. You go somewhere that has a waterfall. You have a beer, watch the water… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never… — Graham Foust Copy Share Image
Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The sky is no longer out there, but it is right on the edge of the space you are in. The sense… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
Wine is a living, breathing thing during its time in the bottle and in the glass. It is always changing, especially in… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
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