Famous Max Eastman Quotes & Sayings

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it. — Barbara Kingsolver

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies. — Rumi

I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it particularly now. A picture is not the world, but a new thing. — Tod Papageorge

It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. — Jean Paul

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive. — Amy Hempel

know a Work of Art from a Daub of Artifice) — Thomas Carlyle

Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life. — James Whistler

The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.' — Fernando Torres

We can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing. — Margaret J. Wheatley

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y — David Levithan