“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
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“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
Source: Freeze-frame: One Minute Stress Management : a Scientifically Proven Technique for Clear Decision Making and Improved Health
“The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”
Source: The Act of Creation
Source: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”
Source: What it Takes to be Number One
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Source: Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer
“You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.”
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
Source: Moby Dick
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
“Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.”
“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
Source: Christopher Morley's Philadelphia
Source: Chagall at the Met
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
Source: The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections
“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Source: The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”
Source: Places
Source: Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales
“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
Source: Poems
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court