Isn’t it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
—John Loengard (American Photographer)
The simplest things give me ideas.
—Joan Miro (Spanish Artist)
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
—C. William Pollard (American Businessman, Author)
The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
—Marcel Proust (French Novelist)
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
—Tom Wilson (American Cartoonist)
Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.
—Hans Christian Andersen (Danish Author)
It is difficult to divest one’s self of vanity; because impossible to divest one’s self of self-love.
—Hugh Walpole (English Novelist)
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
—John le Carre (English Novelist)
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
—Terry Pratchett (English Fantasy Writer)
It’s very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
—Alex Trebek (American TV Personality)
Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.
—Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (English Naval Commander)
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
—Ralph Lauren (American Businessman)
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quickly than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
—Moss Hart (American Playwright)