Schwarzman Scholars Quotes & Sayings

Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character. — Pete Carril

The man that seeks the everlasting prize; It shows you whence he comes, wither he goes. What he leaves undone; also what he does. It also shows you how he runs and runs. Till he unto the gate of glory comes. — John Bunyan

Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is serene and radiant. It takes no time, but it occupies all our time, making our life programs new and overcoming. We need not get frantic. Love is at the helm. And when our little day is done, we lie down quietly in peace, for all is well.

from A TESTAMENT OF DEVOTION — Thomas Kelly

Even knowing all, being forbidden to tell. Even wanting to help, rescue is impossible. I know of no condition more painful than that. — CLAMP

Look, the point is, tiny fire-breathing dinosaur, stacked up against a doofus not-so-ninja turtle and an overgrown iguana with a flower on his back - practical shit aside, he's clearly the ace choice. — Daniel Younger

No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings. — Kelly Link

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination. — Jean Baudrillard

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman

Charlie Sheen has the potential to cause your soul to weep and forfeit — Charlie Sheen

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT. — Josef Albers

The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field. — Donald Knuth

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life. — Bernhard Goetz

The way I see it, your potential allegiance is directly tied to whether you believe in what we're doing. — Kit Rocha