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- The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- 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
- It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), Sherlock Holmes in "The Dancing Men"
- If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm.
- Bruce Barton
- In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
- Antonio Porchia, Voices
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams (1957 - )
- All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.
- Robert Fulghum (1937 - )
- Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
- Paul Valéry (1871 - 1945)
- Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
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