"A battle avoided cannot be lost."

“Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 285. 35, De Magia, 1922.

“If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.”

“I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?”

“At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'”

“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”

Source : Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.36, Univ of California Press

“[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the principles of integrity and objectivity, with a complete rejection of all authority except that of fact.”

Source : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1985). “Science in the Making”, Praeger Pub Text

“A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.”

“If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.”

Source : FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 20, 2012