Schollaert Verhuis Quotes & Sayings

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. — Jackson Pollock

Nonetheless, that order has now been destabilized, which means that the rest of us are going to have to quickly figure out how to turn "managed degrowth" into something that looks a lot less like the Great Depression and a lot more like what some innovative economic thinkers have taken to calling "The Great Transition."56 — Naomi Klein

You want to challenge experts, because experts get a lot wrong. Doctors misdiagnose one time in five. In the U.S. and Canada, 50,000 people die every year who would not have had to. — Noreena Hertz

We have to learn that service to the greater good is the greatest satisfaction. That idea is at the basis of all the great traditions dating back into history. When you get inside yourself - and you really find that deep inner peace that's rooted in love - then you can't live a life that we see being manifested in the large parts of the world right now. — Edgar Mitchell

To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business. Yet we have no other world to live in. And — Matt Haig

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something. — Curtis Jackson

It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy. — Ronald Reagan

There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race. — Joel Osteen

For the violence in the dark streets, education is the best street light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required. — Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Get your assets working for you so that your "ass" isn't working for someone else. — Robert Kiyosaki

Thousands of times greater in space and time is the third of our worlds, the biosphere, the totality of all life, plastered like a membrane over all of earth. The biosphere has its own epic cycles. Humanity, one of the countless species forming the biosphere, can perturb it, but we cannot leave it or destroy it without perishing ourselves. The cycles of the other species can be destroyed, and the biosphere corrupted. But for each careless step we take, our species will ultimately pay an unwelcome price - always. — Edward O. Wilson

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted. — Tariq Ali