06/28/10

If I write a book I do it mostly for myself for the child in me and for the adult in me. The criterion for my children’s books is: If I were a child would I like it That’s very egotistical but it’s the same thing with my books for adults. I wouldn’t do a book if I didn’t want to partake and share. With a book I can do both: I give and I share. -Tomi Ungerer

06/27/19

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. -J.R.R. Tolkien

06/26/19

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. -Logan Pearsall Smith

06/25/19

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. -Andy Rooney

06/24/19

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. -Anna Quindlen

06/21/19

Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry ... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. -George Polya

06/20/19

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories -Ben Okri

06/19/19

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. -Thurgood Marshall

06/18/19

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. -Earl Nightingale

06/17/19

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. -Kazuo Koike

06/14/19

Bad weather always looks worse through a window. -Tom Lehrer

06/13/19

You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. -Ken Kesey

06/12/19

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. -Samuel Johnson

06/11/19

Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. -Patrick Rothfuss

06/10/19

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen. -Aldous Huxley

06/07/19

I say, "Get me some poets as managers." Poets are our original systems thinkers.  They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obliged to interpret and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world turns.  Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders. -Sydney Harman

06/06/19

If he is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. -Khalil Gibran

06/05/19

Any three lines do not a haiku make. It takes an epiphany to make it pop. -Lawrence Ferlinghetti

06/04/19

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion, -- the religion of well-doing and daring, men of sturdy truth, men of integrity and feeling for others. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

06/03/19

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. -Malcolm De Chazal