Ed Blackwell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

  • Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  • Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

  • Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

  • There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.

  • Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

  • My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  • Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  • My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

  • I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.