Fogjad Quotes & Sayings

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom. — Kathleen Norris

Dream big, but stay humble. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

On the spectrum of creative work, the difference between the mediocre and the good is vast. Mediocrity is, however, still on the spectrum; you can move from mediocre to good in increments. The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something. Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing. — Austin Kleon

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change ... you will change. — Robert Anthony

I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone should be enough. The things I write about, if you notice, are sensitive issues for a lot of people. If I told you my age, they would get ideas. The next thing you know they'll be filing lawsuits against me. — Andrea Hirata

I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Letter to a Young Poet, 1903 — Rainer Maria Rilke

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability. — Judith Guest

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure? — Joan Collins

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax. — Roy Eldridge

Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels; you give freely; and you count sacrifice a bargain ... those gifts are truly great which are given simply for the joy they bring to another heart. — Henry B. Eyring

There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy ... the list goes on. — J. Michael Straczynski

Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core. — Michael Hanlon

Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. — Craig Venter