Memorable Lines Flashcards
Gustave Flaubert on importance of routine
Be regular and orderly in your life, so you can be violent and original in your work
F Scott Fitzgerald on dark night of the soul
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning
Anonymous on what sort of load to ask for
Don’t ask for a light load but rather a strong back
William Gibson on the future today
The future is here. It is just unevenly distributed
Richard Feynman on fooling yourself
The first principle is you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool
Kurt Vonnegut on the golden rule
There’s only one rule I know of: you’ve got to be kind
Oscar Wilde on existence vs living
To live is the rarest thing in this world. Most people exist, that is all.
Loesje on waiting and the future
The longer you wait for the future the shorter it will be.
Dwight L Moody on who you are in the dark
Character is what you are in the dark
Mark Twain on taking what does not belong to you
It is better to take what not does belong to you than to let it lie around neglected
Anonymous on how a man got to the top of the mountain
Remember when you see a man at the top of the mountain, he did not fall there
Frank Sinatra on whatever gets you through the night
I’m for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquillisers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Benjamin Franklin on lost time
Lost time is never found again
Pablo Picasso on what art is
Art is theft
George Matthew Allen on value of many interests
People with many interests live, not only longer, but happier
Ralph Waldo Emerson on what every artist is at the start
Every artist was first an amateur
Unknown on results or excuses
You can have results or you can have your excuses. You cannot have both
George Burns on looking towards the future
I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life
Oscar Wilde on where we are and what we look at
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
Samuel Beckett on what the particular contains
In the particular is contained the universal
Aldous Huxley on what ceilings become
Every ceiling, wheb reached, becomes a floor one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on knowing
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on what our goals need to be
It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise
Mother Teresa on casting a stone
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples
Benjamin Franklin on net worth
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Ronald Reagan on hard work
I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance
Sue Grafton on that small voice
Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what’s important and what’s not
John Steinbeck on value of winter
What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness
Charles Darwin on what ignorance begets
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge
F Scott Fitzgerald on the direction out boat is heading
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
Ursula K. le Guin on walls
The worst walls are the ones you put there—you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors
Henry David Thoreau on good things
All good things are wild and free
Socrates on the unexamined life
The unexamined life is not worth living
Antonii Porchia on straight lines
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life
Abraham Maslow on having a toolkit
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail
Oscar Wilde on moderation
Everything in moderation including moderation
Herman Melville on what lies ahead
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
Napoleon Hill on a winning combination
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success
Oscar Wilde on who people are
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Mike Tyson on having a plan
Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the face
Louis Armstrong on what happens to Musicians
Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them
Mark Twain on Courage
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear
Yogi Berra on theory
n theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re not
George Orwell on what liberty is
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear
Sigmund Freud on the struggle years
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful
Michaelangeo on mastery
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all
Lao Tzu on time
Time is a created thing. To say, ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to’.
Mark Twain on what makes life worth living
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life
Haruki Murakami on time
Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.
Leonard Bernstein on acheiving great things
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
Tennessee Williams on security
Security is a kind of death, I think
Aristotle on mark of an educated mind
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
Aristotle on the educated mind
It is the mark if an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought withiut accepting it
Albert Camus on what we find in winter
In the depths of winter, I finally learned within me there lay an invincible summer
