“If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.” IfsWorldBodyLanguagePrinciplesInfluenceThis WorldTasteMereActiveSeedsYour BodyTemperPersuasionContagionPestilence Book:Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc Source: Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc
“I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.” ThinkingWantI CanDifferentMy OwnTasteDirectSeeds Author:Jack Nicholson
“Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent with it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great.” IfsMenWorldHeartTreeThis WorldFoolTasteSucceedTasksIntelligentAccomplishSeedsTinySuitsPettyAppearingLatentIntelligent ManMustardMustard Seed Book:Personality Development Source: Personality Development
“My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato. But it was a huge disaster because the tomato didn't taste good. And then my dad started his own genetics company and I began doing that with him. He and I ran a genetics company for 10 years. And so I sold seeds to Florida.” YearsCompanyHugeDadTasteScientistMy DadSeedsDisasterChiefsRanFloridaGeneticsTomatoesMonsanto Author:Sanjay Rawal
“I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.” WayRealFeltTasteFruitSeedsMy WayApplesWombPerditionPomegranates Author:Jeanette Winterson