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- My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.
- Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
- My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.
- Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
- The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
- Louis I Kahn
- Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
- Phil Knight, founder of Nike
- We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural.
- Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users, 08-22-06
- The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
- Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
- Cocooned inside our private dramas we often don’t realize life is rolling by us like it should.
- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 08-29-06
- You don’t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
- Francis Ford Coppola (1939 - )
- Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
- Diana Spencer
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