A21s Quotes & Sayings

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood. — Yann Martel

Eliminate the clutter. That's the key. Eliminate the clutter and understand the important things. First and foremost, the most important thing is affecting the people around you in a positive way. Second thing is, be one of those guys that's going to out-study every person there is on what you need to do from a game-plan standpoint, what you need to do from a characteristic standpoint to stand apart. The last thing is, throw it to the color jersey we're wearing. — Jim McElwain

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy. — Neal A. Maxwell

All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an essential idea or story to an audience that knows very little about it, and that requires translation. To do this successfully, the writer must filter the idea through the prism of his eye, and his mind, and his writing style. — Ilan Stavans

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai. — Criss Angel

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. — Deepak Chopra

Jacqs wasn't one to let a little thing like reality get between him and a good insult. — Lyn Gala

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest. — Broderick Crawford

There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. — D.H. Lawrence

So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing, at least to me, on the old unanswerable philosophical questions. And as I spin out the action, I'm always very concerned with springing discoveries
actual philosophical discoveries. But at the same time I'm concerned
and finally more concerned
with what the discoveries do to the character who makes them, and to the people around him. It's that that makes me not really a philosopher, but a novelist. — John Gardner

The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber. — Juvenal

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die. — Al Franken

There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators; but we must not forget that the religion is still out there. — M.F. Moonzajer