-
Quotes
-
Authors
-
Robert Kiyosaki
"In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes."
--
Source : "Chris Brown Blasts Grammy Appearance Critics" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. February 15, 2012. 
Robert Kiyosaki
#Real Quotes
#Mistake Quotes
#Inspiration Quotes
-
“Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.”
-
“If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel.”
-
“I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.”
-
“That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.”
-
“People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.”
-
“You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of themselves to do so, so that they no longer cared for the taste of the pale wind, no for love or lust, nor to make new songs nor to sing old ones, nor for any of the other animal things they believed they had brought with them out of the rain forests al the bottom of time--though in fact, so my uncle told me, those things brought them”
Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.38, Orb Books
-
“Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.”
-
“Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.”
Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1995). “Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-siècle”, p.18, Verso
