Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Craig

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work. The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

Cynthia Heimel

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

e. e. cummings

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

e. e. cummings

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

e. e. cummings

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e. e. cummings

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

e. e. cummings

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. cummings

love is the every only god

e. e. cummings

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

e. e. cummings

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

e. e. cummings

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

e. e. cummings

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e. e. cummings

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

e. e. cummings

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. B. White

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

E. B. White

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

E. B. White

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

E. B. White

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Drew Houston

You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in six months there's going to be a whole other set of things to know - again in a year, in five years.' The tools will change, the knowledge will change, the worries will change.

Drew Houston

A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

Drew Houston

You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

Drew Houston

The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.

Drew Houston

Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.

Drew Houston

Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.

Douglas Ivester

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.

Douglas Hofstadter

Reductionism is merciless.

Douglas Coupland

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

Andy Warhol

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

Andy Warhol

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Andy Warhol

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andre Gide

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

Andre Gide

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.