When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

Jack London

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

Abraham Lincoln

"Luck is the residue of design."

Branch Rickey

"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form."

Stephen Nachmanovitch

"Love doesn't limit itself to relationships. It is a celebration of life."

Paulo Coelho

"If you take a book with you on a journey, ... an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper – memories cling to the printed page better than anything else."

Cornelia Funke, from Inkheart

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."

Dee Hock

"Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently."

Eric A. Burns

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."


Scott Adams

"Commitment is ... making the time when there is none."

Abraham Lincoln


(Though I like this part most of the quote most, the whole quote is worth a read. Here is the rest.)

"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of: the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism."

"To have a good friend is the purest of all God’s gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others."

Charlie W. Shedd

"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

Matthew Arnold

"Beauty belongs to the moment and is borrowed by memory."

Personal

"Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth."

Pablo Picaso

"If you live right, things happen right."

Walt Disney

"I'm not an optimist, I'm an optimal behavioralist"

Walt Disney

"I think hairstyle is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself."

Hubert de Givenchy

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

Abraham Lincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity. But if you want to test a man's character - give him power."

Abraham Lincoln

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."


Abraham Lincoln

"For an intended art object to be aesthetically pleasing, it must be disengaged from our practical needs and concerns.

Jay Welch

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

Pablo Picaso

"Too many people over value what they are not, and undervalue what they are."

Malcom S, Forbes

"It is an unfortunate human trait that we comfort and torment ourselves at the same time by comparing gifts."

Liz McConkie