Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Erich Fromm

We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.

P. J. O'Rourke

Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

Michael Leunig

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

Jeanette Winterson

The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.

Georges Bataille

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Georges Bataille

Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

Mason Cooley

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

Norman Maclean

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

Chogyam Trungpa

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

David Allen

Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

Byron Katie

When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.

Catherine Bell

I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.

Mike Gardner

We are pleased to receive the Project Partnership Award. As an organization we have worked creatively with regional communities to get urban forestry off the ground. It's wonderful to be formally recognized for these efforts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Bob Monkhouse

I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.

Billy Joel

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

Bill Parcells

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

Alanis Morissette

The ego is a fascinating monster.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

Alan Watts

The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego

Alan Watts

To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.

Alan Watts

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Alan Ball

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Chogyam Trungpa

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

Chogyam Trungpa

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.