"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

--

Source : 1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

Grace Hopper

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy”
“To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.”
“What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider”
“I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.”
“Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.947, Ravenio Books
“I wish I could stop but I could not. I had no other thrill or happiness.”
“I love synthesizers and I love electronic music and I love the avant garde and I always want to try and have some kind of element of that in the music. So once the music is put down and recorded, that's when I start to tinker with it using synths.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.”

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