Wichterle Otto Quotes & Sayings

After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't show up on financial statements, but have cost us many billions. — Charlie Munger

It doesn't matter how physically fit or tough you are, if you fail to use natures computer between your ears. — Gerry Stewart

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon. — Joseph Conrad

Too many talented people string and unstring their instruments without ever playing their music. — Ken Standley

When you are appreciating creation as much as the Creator, then the Creator will ask, 'Who is appreciating my creation as much as me. Let me see this person.' — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs. — Rob Sheffield

I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social. — Alan Licht

IN THE NIGHT, I woke up wailing. The worst thing about the explosion was how I carried it in my body - the heat, the bone-jar and slam of it. In my dreams, there was always a light way out and a dark way out. I had to go the dark way, because the bright way was hot and flickering with fire. But the dark way was where the bodies were. — Donna Tartt