Quotes
Authors
Theodore Parker
"Every man has at times in his mind the ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character. * * * Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself." --
Source : "A Lesson for the Day; or The Christianity of Christ, of the Church, and of Society". "The Dial" Magazine, (p. 196), October 1940.
Theodore Parker
#Fall Quotes
#Character Quotes
#Men Quotes
“The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.”
Source : Jack Horner, James Gorman (2009). “How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution”, p.37, Penguin
“It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.”
“Hard work is the main thing-hard work and dedication. And I think a great part of it is goal setting. You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. Every goal that I've set, I've been able to achieve. That's been very fulfilling.”
“Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?”
“No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.”
“My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.”
“Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.”