A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. —Oscar Wilde
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. ―Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
*Inspiration* is a tide that comes in and out unpredictably, and if you wait for it, you are wasting your time. You just have to work work work work work, and then you will be so much better prepared when inspiration drops in to say hello. THEN you can grab onto its fin and go for a little rainbow dolphin ride through the sparkling sea mist. —Kat O’Sullivan (Katwise) Insperspiration (Katwise Blog January 21st, 2013)
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image. —Stephen Hawking
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. —Anais Nin
The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee … gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. —Leonardo da Vinci
Nature doesn’t let anything go empty, doesn’t let anything go to waste. The second the builders and developers and estate agents had moved out, other things had started moving in. —Tana French Broken Harbor
I can’t work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free. —Andrew Wyeth
Enthusiasm moves the world. —Arthur Balfour
