Inspiration Work Selfishness Quotes & Sayings

Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who's boss. — Robert A. Heinlein

You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts. — Graham Swift

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. — Hammurabi

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting. — Adolph Gottlieb

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside - to say, 'This is the way it was.' — John McPhee

When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you. — Lionel Suggs

It is, I am afraid, true that frequently various religious groups endeavor to exert pressures and control over different legislative and educational fields. It is the job of all of us to be alert for such infringement of our prerogatives and prevent any such attempts from being successful. Like all our freedoms, this freedom from religious-group pressure must be constantly defended. What seemed to me most deplorable — Eleanor Roosevelt

I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it. — William Petersen

In ethics [Aristotle] had two bright ideas. First, that extreme behavior of selfishness and self-sacrifice don't work for most people; look for the golden mean. Second, good behavior is not a result of either sudden inspiration or harsh control. It is a habitual pattern, which means slow and steady conditioning: 'One swallow does not make a summer,' nor does one good deed make ethical behavior. — Norman F. Cantor

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning? — Jeanette Winterson

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain. — Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts. — Michael Chabon

Before Prax had gotten married, he'd seen a dance performance based on neo-Taoist traditions. For the first hour, it had been utterly boring, and then after that, the small movements of arms and legs and torso, shifting together, bending, and falling away, had been entrancing. The Rocinante slid into place beside an extending airlock port with the same beauty Prax had seen in that dance, but made more powerful by the knowledge that instead of skin and muscles, this was tons of high-tensile steel and live fusion reactors. — James S.A. Corey

If someone decides to give up their precious time to judge you negatively, let them, it's their own life they're wasting, not yours. If anything, you should be flattered they deem you important enough of their time. The only meaningful thing in life is happiness and the only person who can generate that is yourself, don't let others get in the way of that. — Harrison Wolf

I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine. — Zachary Quinto

Inspiration is incompatible with selfish desire. Whoever wants something for himself sets truth aside. Such aims can only degrade work. — Antonin Sertillanges