Retherford Mullen Quotes & Sayings

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. — Roger Von Oech

When we look out into the world, we are looking into a mirror. On a higher spiritual level, we recognize our Oneness with everything and are amazed. — Russell Anthony Gibbs

Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy. — Brian Tracy

If he or she doesn't see or respect your present value nor your future dream the moment you connected there is little or no chance that he or she will do in future. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Simply said, one is contingent through and through, partaking of being rather than generating it out of some source within oneself; and the same is true of the whole intricate web of interdependencies that constitutes nature. — David Bentley Hart

It is not objective reality that displays the phenomenal universe before us, but it is our mind that plays an important part. Suppose that we have but one sense organ, the eye, then the whole universe should consist of colours and of colours only. If we suppose we were endowed with the sixth sense, which entirely contradicts our five senses, then the whole world would be otherwise. Besides, it is our reason that finds the law of cause and effect in the objective world, that discovered the law of uniformity in Nature, and that discloses scientific laws in the universe so as to form a cosmos. — Kaiten Nukariya

The function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders. — G.K. Chesterton

All my life long I have been more melted by the distress under which a strong, proud, and powerful mind is compelled to give way, than by the more easily excited sorrows of softer dispositions. — Walter Scott

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices. — Herbie Hancock

He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent. — James Dashner

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory. — Nick Park

Always, when Cleve had tried to reach somewhere else, something else, Ardis had stripped him of the possibility - like a pine tree being stripped of its branches. The episode last night was different, though, for Ardis had finally penetrated Cleve's protective bark. His brother had exposed the hideous knotholes left by past limb stripping, and had caused Cleve to leak resinous tears. What was he now? Another tree unfit for ever becoming the mast of a great ship? Was his brother to be blamed? Wasn't he himself the one who had allowed this to happen? Cleve — Gaylier Miller

It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless. — Susan Sontag

Patrick: I'm mad. SpongeBob: What's the matter, Patrick? Patrick: I can't see my forehead. — Ann Brashares

truth is a letter from courage! — Zora Neale Hurston