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Chuck Close Interview – Artist and Painter – Quotes on being Paralyzed

Painting is a lie. It’s the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space. My favorite painter of all time is Vermeer. Nuance and subtlety are where it’s at....

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Today’s Funny

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. -Robert Benchley Tagged: quote on work

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How Can Opposites Both be True?

The reason a maxim can be 100 percent true and it’s opposite also be 100 percent true is because the contexts surrounding them can be many. -Kevin Andrew Woolsey, March 11, 2014. Tagged: maxims,...

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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss|5 Favorite Quotes

1. Memories can make us smile. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” 2. Life can be more alive than fantasy if you keep your eyes open. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall...

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Warren Buffet, 5 Famous Quotes

“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about...

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Weekend Thoughts: Søren Kierkegaard

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they...

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Doors of Perception

“If the doors of perception were cleansed,  everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.  For man has closed himself up,  till he sees all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern.”...

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4 Little Thoughts, Miguel de Cervantes

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.  -Miguel de Cervantes By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.  -Miguel de Cervantes There’s not the least thing can...

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5 Fun Thoughts, George Bernard Shaw

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”  “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” “Make it a rule never...

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The Most Feeble Thing in Nature, #347

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe...

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Billionaire Advice: “Change the Status Quo”

Advice from a Billionaire How can you achieve your dreams? I’ll tell you the secret but nobody ever follows it: Just do things in life the way other people don’t do them. Change the status quo and then...

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Thought for Today

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” -William W. Purkey Tagged: dance quote, live...

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Small Opportunities

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” -Demosthenes

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Business Quote Monday, W. Edwards Deming

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in...

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Weekend Thoughts, RWE

Many years ago I read this famous line from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The house praises the carpenter.” Today I am stopping to reflect and answer the question, “What was it about this thought, the first...

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5 Excellent Thoughts, Oct 10

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. –Rita Mae Brown Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. –Georges Braque Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water....

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Happy Birthday to William Zinsser (1922)

5 Quotes from William Zinsser on Writing “Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it’s because they contain a larger truth that your...

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Read. Think. Do.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be...

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Albert Einstein Born on This Day (1879)

10 Famous Quotes from Albert Einstein “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though...

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Value in Writing

Today’s Bright Idea for September 25, 2013 Your true value as a writer comes from speaking what you know inside of you to be true, regardless of whether any one else on the planet believes it to be so....

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