Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions.
—Joseph Chilton Pearce (American Author)
Writing is a struggle against silence.
—Carlos Fuentes (Mexican novelist, diplomat)
Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.
—Isaac Pitman (English Educator, Inventor)
Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
—Gelsey Kirkland (American Ballerina)
Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.
—Edward Everett (American Politician)
If your self-esteem is low, perhaps focus on finding work you can succeed at. Real self-esteem comes from accomplishment.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach)
Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.
—Marshall Rosenberg (American Psychologist)
The toughest part of being on a diet is shutting up about it.
—Gerald Nachman (American Entertainment Journalist)
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
—John J. Pershing (American Army Officer)
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present—henceforth?—the subject to which you are condemned.
—Howard Nemerov (American Poet, Novelist)
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
—Anne Frank (German Holocaust Victim)
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
—Freeman Dyson (American Physicist, Author)
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (Swiss Philosopher, Writer)
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
—Sam Snead (American Golfer)
Better unborn than untaught.
—Scottish Proverb
Either dance well or quit the ballroom.
—Greek Proverb