"Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact."

Troward, Thomas on desire   

"The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form."

Delsarte on vengeance
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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

Kaunda, Kenneth on ambition
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"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."

Christie, Agatha on friends and friendship
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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

Pound, Ezra on genius
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"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert on discovery
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"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are."

Saying, Zen on understanding
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"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought."

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert on discovery
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"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."

Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste on affection
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"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use."

Watson, Thomas J. on wisdom
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"Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love."

Bataille, Georges on ecstasy   

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

Braun, Wernher Von on research
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"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."

Joubert, Joseph on poetry and poets   

"Those who know how to think need no teachers."

Gandhi, Mahatma on teacher
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"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life."

Strindberg, J. August on character   

"A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion."

Hoffer, Eric on socializing and socialism   

"Success doesn't come to you you go to it."

Collins, Marva on success   

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."

Marquis, Don on ideas
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"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."

Muriac, Francois on destiny
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"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

Wooden, John on mistakes
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"There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening."

Proverb, American on people
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"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not."

Kennedy, Robert F. on dream
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"It's not the having, it's the getting."

Taylor, Elizabeth on achievement
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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

Washington, George on freedom
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"When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one."

Twain, Mark on compliments
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"No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."

Hill, Napoleon on mistakes
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"Don't fear change -- embrace it."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on change
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"The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear."

Burke, Edmund on weakness
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"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."

Carlyle, Thomas on doubt
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"The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him."

Patocka, Jan on destiny
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on education
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"Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche."

Denton, Andrew on stress
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"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it."

Beecher, Henry Ward on temperament   

"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."

Simon, Paul on spontaneity   

"Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run."

Schaef, Anne W. on patience
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on revenge
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"It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten -- but the hurt stays in the heart."

Higginson, Ella on insensitivity
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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

Bowen, Elizabeth on jealousy
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"Obey the principles without being bound by them."

Lee, Bruce on principles   

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."

Huxley, Aldous on travel
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