"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Nature Quotes #Progress Quotes #Development Quotes

“A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.”
“I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.”
“I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (Book 6: The Cynics)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.
“The camera is as subjective as we are.”
“I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.”
“We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.”
“I just want to wear my heart on my sleeve.”

Source : "Tim Sherwood loses his coat and cool and insists Tottenham were better" by David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2014.
“As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.”

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