Brain That Didnt Quotes & Sayings

It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will. — Ruth Hurmence Green

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood. — Ivan Chermayeff

Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not deserve them. — M.F. Moonzajer

Something in me - probably a small, nationalist dwarf part of my brain - something in me would like to feel proud of Dutch literature. But its hard to when the annual 'book week gift' year in year out is granted to a male. I dont like being part of an unjust system. But let me say this: it is the election method that is the real problem here. The 'vergadering' (meeting) that employs a simple flagging system - the basic way almost everything is decided here, from literary prizes to how much money is divided - it is a system based on the destruction of subtle values. You cannot ever ever say: I didnt understand this book. You can only say 'yes' or 'no'. And that system, that annihilates all forms of subtlety, that system is patriarchal in all its essence. So its useless to simply maintain the method, and try alter the outcome. — Martijn Benders

Basketball is basketball. — Oscar Robertson

What creates reality is not reality, but you. — Bentinho

And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension of space where action is inaction. We do not know what love is, for in the space made by thought around itself as the me, love is the conflict of the me and the not-me. This conflict, this torture, is not love. Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. In that space is the benediction which man seeks and cannot find. He seeks it within the frontiers of thought, and thought destroys the ecstasy of this benediction. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you think you have a better mousetrap or car, or shirt, or whatever, you've got to tell people ... — Lee Clow

We are all mortals, and each is for himself. — Moliere

Life serves the risk taker. — Sophia Amoruso