“I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written. I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs.” MindBelieveLittlesMatterHandsBeliefI BelieveChristMy OwnAcceptingWrittenDoorsSubjectsFrontsProductsWelcomeFrogsSubject MatterFront DoorsBack DoorsPeriwinkle Book:Lo! Source: Lo!
“I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.” KnowsRealDreamLawDesireMy OwnBrainEnvironmentProductsAppearanceReal LifePermanentAwakeDistinctionRecogniseActualityTransitory Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.” IfsPersonsGivenMemoriesMy OwnPleasureChildhoodTalentFashionPoetProductsSourceHigherSorrowShadowRegardSacredDearPossessionTemptationAliensDelicateInclinationSpoilHigher Power Author:Hermann Hesse
“Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.” Has BeensInspirationAbleTogetherMy OwnKnownCuttingTearsProductsKeysMarriedDevelopingBoardsHelpfulSheetsGetting MarriedPinterest Author:Dylan Lauren
“My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.” FirstsKindMadeHandsMy OwnGoneProductsPhrasesRepeatsAppropriateDescriptionPinsMy Own LifeOne Of A Kind Author:Anne Taintor
“I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.” WayWantNeedsWritingHas BeensUseCareMy OwnAttitudeProductsNegativeAlternativesMicrosoftNegative Attitude Author:Linus Torvalds
“I don't want to sound pompous, but I think it is important that when one makes arguments of consequence that he go and see what those consequences are. Having championed the war, I wanted to see the products of my own argument.” ThinkingWantImportantWarWantedSoundMy OwnProductsConsequenceArgumentPompous Author:Lawrence Kaplan
“I start with peoples growth, my own growth included. I dont start with the companys strategy or products. I start with peoples growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the companys growth will in many respects take care of itself.” PeopleIfsBelieveCareRunningI BelieveGrowsGrowthMy OwnCompanyProductsStrategyTake CareParticipating Author:James McNerney
“My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products.” ThinkingMenWantNeedsFeelsLooksCareMy OwnSimpleProductsSkinsRitualFeel BetterStraightforwardWants And NeedsSkin Care Author:Tom Ford
“I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I could destroy it without damaging myself in the presence of others. In that sense I was my own clay. I formulated myself, I mated with myself, and I gave birth to myself. And my real self was the product - the polaroids.” PeopleIfsRealSelfMy OwnProductsBirthAbsenceTomsClayReal SelfPeepingPolaroids Author:Lucas Samaras
“My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.” IfsFeelsMy OwnHonestProductsStandardsCompromise Author:Neill Blomkamp
“I've always put my own money into my own shows because today, if you want to stay in the business, you have to produce your own product because there is not enough production and enough people that create today so if you wanna work you produce it or you stay home.” PeopleIfsWantEnoughShowsHomeTodayMy OwnProduceProductsProductions Author:Debbie Reynolds
“My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.” YearsStatesProblemGovernmentNationsMy OwnJudgingProductsOughtCreatingMajorsConcernIndependentElectionTrialsSelectArizonaState GovernmentJudiciaryThrough The YearsMajor ProblemsIndependent Judiciary Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.” PeopleThinkingKindFeelingsFoundFeltRealizingMy OwnSituationProductsToolsManageRealizationNovelistsSolidarityEvoke Author:Elif Batuman
“My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there may be a tendency to view the animal-rights opposition in somewhat distorted fashion as a new development, as the product of a very recent enlightenment about the rights due to animals.” MayMy OwnAnimalViewsRightsFashionTaughtProductsDevelopmentEnlightenmentDuesCrueltyTendenciesOppositionProtestAnimal RightsUnderestimate Author:Bette Ford