Inspirational Quotes - Page 470

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

In hindsight everything is much clearer.

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.

Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Well begun is half done.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Life is hard but so very beautiful