Finnermans Quotes & Sayings

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance. — Mark Victor Hansen

The person who does not make a choice dies in the eyes of the Lord, even though he continues to breathe and to walk about the streets. For a man has to choose, therein lies his strength: in the power of his decisions. — Paulo Coelho

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.
(Nero Wolfe) — Rex Stout

Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself. — Frederick Lenz

Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Comfort food is absolutely moving upscale. — Danny Meyer

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. — Katherine Mansfield

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of that. That's actually very valuable. — Richard Dawkins

Don't we all choose to live in the dump in certain aspects of our lives? — Camron Wright