Hank Wesselman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.

  • Humility is not weakness, but strength under control

  • We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.

  • I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

  • Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

  • Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

  • Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

  • I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

  • It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

  • A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.