"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."

-- Norman MacCaig

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.”
“The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.”

Source : "Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties".
“The foundation of our belief is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge it was therefore impossible that they could have persisted in affirming the truths they have narrated, had not Jesus actually rose from the dead, and had they not known this fact as certainly as they knew any other fact.”
“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.”
“The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.”
“Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.”

Source : "Innovation is Great but Execution is Better" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2009.
“I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?”
“I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.”

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