Learning From Mistakes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

  • Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

  • I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.

  • As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.

  • I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

  • Still. Smokers out there, you know what I'm talking about. That moment, after you've had a huge meal, say at Thanksgiving, when you step outside in the cold, light up a cigarette and take a deep inhale ... that's about the best moment in the world, you know? All the smokers out there, you know that feeling. Sometimes, smoking is fantastic.

  • Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.

  • The whole basis of working in black and white and grays became the basis of my understanding of color, because it's all about tone, it's all about light and dark. If you don't get that, then your color work is going to be a mess. So that's the beginning of the toolkit: drawing and black and white media.

  • A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.

  • The wilderness needs your whole attention.