Velasco Ibarra Quotes & Sayings

The fruitfulness of our life depends in large measure on our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility. All he asks of any act he performs is that it be his act. If it is performed by him, it must be good. All words spoken by him must be infallible. The car he has just bought is the best for its price, for no other reason than that he is the one who has bought it. He seeks no other fruit than this, and therefore he generally gets no other. — Thomas Merton

If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up
to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else. — Natalie Goldberg

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people? — John Green

In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read. — Gene Roddenberry

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. — Joseph Conrad

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met. — Maggie Young

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills ... patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention ... — E. J. Gold

You know what I figured out?"
I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276) — Gail Giles

Love may turn to indifference with possession. — William Hazlitt

Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite. — Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra