"Big visions are realized through small steps."

“When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.”

“I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.”

“You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.”

“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”

Source : "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

“How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.”

Source : W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.41, Princeton University Press

“If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.”

“I’m always focussed on the actual work, and I think that’s a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.”

“The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.”

Source : Vance Packard (1991). “The Hidden Persuaders”