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- Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.
- Joel E. Ross
- The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
- Roy L. Smith
- ...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it [Denmark] is a prison.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2
- Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
- Nicholas Boileau
- He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.
- Klopstock
- The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
- Marcel Duchamp
- Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
- Whitney M. Young Jr.
- By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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