Quotations Weblog

Jim Carrey has two thoughts on how to be successful in life.

Not only do you visualize your success, but you have to get out there and do the work.

Ward Jenkins at The Ward-O-Matic writes regularly about art. He is an animation director at Primal Screen and he loves to collect graphic art from the late fifties and early sixties. He regularly submits artwork to Sugar Frosted Goodness and he writes profoundly.

If you’re feeling a little blue, head on over to The Ward-O-Matic and read what he has to say about the world, art and his children. You’ll end up feeling a little better and you just might find yourself looking for old books in the thrift stores.

Wouldn’t we all do a little better with some more sleep. Next time someone is trying to convince you to stay out late, use James Thurber’s excuse:

“Sorry, I’m allergic to consciousness.”

You’ll get a laugh and a graceful way out of a situation.

We add new quotations to this site every day, and we also add new authors frequently—with over 3000 authors in our index, it’s amazing how many famous people we’ve only begun to quote. Here’s a sampling of the authors we’ve added to the site in the last month:

• Olive Schreiner (British / S. African novelist)
• Ruth Benedict (US Anthropologist)
• Sholem Asch (US Yiddish Author)
• Vernon Howard
• Kathy Sierra (US Author and writer of Creating Passionate Users)
• Mike Meyers (Canadian actor and comedian)
• Kevin Smith (director, blogger, and Silent Bob)
• Seth Godin (marketing guru and blogger)

Conformity: it’s like it’s a dirty word or something. Maybe because it represents a more guttural side to ourselves. The fact that we are pack animals is something that we like to deny, but thousands of years of hunting in packs bred an instinct of conformity into us that we cannot deny.

Individuality: it’s like sainthood in some respects. It has spawned our great inventions, our great literature and our great philosophies. We strive toward it and fight the pack mentality that saved the hides of our ancestors so long ago.

If we conform, we become lost in the crowd. If we are individual, we are lonely and isolated. Which is right? Is it always a tight-rope walk between the two?