Disarento Quotes & Sayings

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons. — George Foreman

Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life of the artist sufficiently miserable to be unattractive, and no-one will take to art save those in whom the divine daemon is absolute. — Clive Bell

The Cult of Done Bre Pettis wrote this manifesto on his blog: 1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. 3. There is no editing stage. 4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it. 5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it. 6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done. 7. Once you're done you can throw it away. 8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done. 9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right. 10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes. 11. Destruction is a variant of done. 12. If you have an idea and publish it on the Internet, that counts as a ghost of done. 13. Done is the engine of more. — Seth Godin

I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihilating force which suppresses the originality and even the awareness of one's perceptions; now I saw it as a dread deity, so riveted to one's being, its insignificant face so incrusted in one's heart, that if it detaches itself, if it turns away from one, this deity that one had barely distinguished inflicts on one sufferings more terrible than any other and is then as cruel as death itself. — Marcel Proust

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight. — Herman Wouk

I feel like I've known you forever. Like I've held you in my heart for centuries. (Talon) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles. — Michel De Montaigne

D'Arvit!' swore the Doctor aloud. — Eoin Colfer

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies. — Milton Friedman

Extraordinary effervescence exists within you, waiting to be tapped. — Amy Leigh Mercree

I thought about the irony of dying just after learning I wasn't dying. I thought, you don't need cancer to die. It could come just like that, from a moment of carelessness. — Anonymous

And as for you, Paul, I assured him that you could keep a secret for up to six days without apoplexy. — Arthur C. Clarke

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances. — Margaret J. Wheatley

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise ... guided by your own virtue and highest ambition — Philippa Gregory