Piero Lissoni Quotes & Sayings

We give people a taste of different eras of us, it's kind of like a mix-tape of us. — Mikey Way

I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process. — Drew Gooden

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage. — Carl Van Vechten

A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment." — Sydney J. Harris

The world ultimately is what we say it is. — David Strauss

Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost ... What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena. — Huang Po

In the earliest times of the discovery of the faculty of judgment, every new judgment was a find. The worth of this find rose, the more practical and fertile the judgment was. Verdicts which now seem to us very common then still demanded an unusual level of intellectual life. One had to bring genius and acuity together in order to find new relations using the new tool. Its application to the most characteristic, interesting, and general aspects of humanity necessarily aroused exceptional admiration and drew the attention of all good minds to itself. In this way those bodies of proverbial sayings came into being that have been valued so highly at all times and among all peoples. It would easily be possible for the discoveries of genius we make today to meet with a similar fate in the course of time. There could easily come a time when all that would be as common as moral precepts are now, and new, more sublime discoveries would occupy the restless spirit of men. — Novalis

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. — Francis Bacon

Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true. — Spencer Wells

First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible. — Paul Hawken

The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me." — Wayne Dyer

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do. — Vincent Cassel