"He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write."

-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Limits Quotes

“Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.”
“It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.”

Source : Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.12, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that weren't sweet.”
“The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.”
“On the business side, innovative leaders are beginning to wake up to the fact that this non-stop work trend is bad for business: Google Ireland tested a program called Dublin Goes Dark, where employees turned over their phones at the end of each work day. It seems like a sea change is ahead.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest - and necessarily most expensive - wines from around the world. I am pleased to say that they also hold my own warrant, for providing exceptional wines at - surprisingly - modest prices.”
“Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.”

Source : Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.126
“When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.”

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