Fiskdale Ma Quotes & Sayings

The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug. — B.H. Liddell Hart

If you really love something, just continue doing it. — Julia Garner

In order that people may be happy in their work,
these three things are needed:
they must be fit for it;
they must not do too much of it;
and they must have a sense of success in it. — John Ruskin

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies. — Sarah Josepha Hale

It's not that we need to form new organizations. It's simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And to the extent that we can do that, and do that quickly, I think we can provide what will be necessary for a major breakthrough for the future. — Don Edward Beck

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago. — Nicole Krauss

I tried desperately to shift the weight of the dish back in towards me, as I saw Mother reaching — Kate Mildenhall

I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being ... Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese. — Charles Bukowski

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk. — Conan O'Brien