Teofikov Quotes & Sayings

How can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance. — William Shakespeare

When we think about the remarkably early age at which the young men went up to the University in, let us say, Tudor times, and thereafter were held fit to assume responsibility for the conduct of their own affairs, are we altogether comfortable about that artificial prolongation of intellectual childhood and adolescence into the years of physical maturity which is so marked in our own day? To postpone the acceptance of responsibility to a late date brings with it a number of psychological complications which, while they may interest the psychiatrist, are scarcely beneficial either to the individual or to society. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working ... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power. — Scott Kahn

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things. — Bruce Nauman

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit. — Marilyn Monroe

Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth. — Mollie Marti

They change their skies,
but not their souls
who run across the sea. — Horace

Conscious effort inhibits and 'jams' the automatic creative mechanism. — Maxwell Maltz