Farinaz Koushanfar Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used; it allays the sometimes virulent fever of the over-active mind, like a cool wind blowing through the brain to smooth the harshness of untrammelled thought; it bridges here and there the gaps, brings things into proportion and blunts the sharper angles. But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment. — Victor Hugo

Because we see only what we already know. We project our own capacities - for good as well as evil - onto the other person. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. — Samuel Johnson

You need to stop caring what people who don't matter think of you. Be who you are and let everybody else be who they are. Differences are a good thing. — Holly Smale

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! — Robert Creeley

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history. — Margaret Atwood

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. — Anthony Trollope

She's the woman I love. The woman my sick fucker of a father doesn't want me to love — Abbi Glines

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day. — Mohamed ElBaradei