"we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill."

--

Source : Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

Cynthia Heimel

#Tired Quotes #Our World Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at work, then the most unnatural behavior, which only appears in late stages or abnormal cases, would be to behave as separate Egos. Under normal circumstances they work in common, each a meaningfully functioning part of the whole.”

Source : "The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler" edited by Heinz L. Ansbacher, (p. 11), 1954.
“Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.”

Source : Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.133, Penguin
“You can't really ever know what someone is like or what they're thinking. There are people who say they're feminists but who say really anti-feminist things, [and] other people who think they're one way but act another.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“If you stare into a flame You'll get an eye full of energy If you write your nightscapades You'll get a dawn full of promises”
“If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.”
“Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.”

Source : "Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, dl.acm.org. December 1974.
“[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.”
“Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.”

You may also like:

Barbara Kingsolver
Novelist
Dave Barry
Author
James McBride
Writer
Joel Selvin
Music criticism
Mitch Albom
Author
Ridley Pearson
Author
Roy Blount, Jr.
Writer
Scott Turow
Author
Al Kooper
Songwriter