The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author’s ideas and those of the public.
Nicolas Chamfort
Quotes
Andy Warhol
You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand, because those are the only good things.
John F. Kennedy
The sad fact is that it looks more and more as if our national sport is not playing at all – but watching. We
Ingva Kamprad, Founder of Ikea
An idea without a price tag has no meaning.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.
Aldous Huxley
We used to lodge in the same house with a Russian Jew, who was a furrier. That man was interested in money, if you
John Hibben
You, enlightened, self-sufficient, self-governed, endowed with gifts above your fellows, the world expects you to produce as well as to consume, to add to
Paul Johnson
He was serving his art and his God in the way that his genius – not society or any other authority – dictated.
E. Merrill Root
The first question anyone or anything should ask is this: ‘What am I in my essential nature and being?’ If he is a true