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Mistake Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A clever man commits no minor blunders. – Goethe

Experience is the sum of our mistakes. – Unknown

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. – Mahatma Gandhi

It’s a capital mistake to theorize before one has the data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. – Arthur Conan Doyle

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. – James Joyce

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you. – Richard Feynman

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. – Malcolm Forbes

The fall is not a failure. Failure is staying where you fell. – Socrates

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard

The mistake of mistakes is the apparently plausible notion that to say something one has to say something. But what the artist has to present is wordless. – Joseph Campbell

The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes. – Buckminster Fuller

What the path to business success really looks like: Messy, precarious, and riddled with mistakes. – Bill Gates

When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances. – Stephen Covey 

Choice Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. – Napoleon Hill

Between stimulus and response is a space. In this space lies our freedom to choose our response. In these choices lie our growth and our happiness. – Stephen Covey

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work again in your life. – Confucius

Choose only one master, Nature. – Rembrandt

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. – William Jennings

Heaven on Earth is a choice you make, not a place you find. – Wayne Dyer

I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become. – Carl Jung

If you have to choose between being kind and being right, choose being kind and you will always be right. –Wayne Dyer

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting. – Nick Murray

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again. Fear must be overcome again and again. – Abraham Maslow

Remember you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the author chooses. – Epictetus

Science updates debates. It refreshes them. It does not kill them. It is up to each person to make his or her own choice. – Hubert Reeves

The last of personal freedoms that no one can deprive you is choice …to  choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. – Victor Frankl

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care. – Hugh MacLeod

We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other. – Stephen Covey

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. – Joan Baez

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. You know what you know. You’re the one who’ll decide where you’ll go. – Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel

Create Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation. – Henri Bergson

All creative work builds on what came before. – Austin Kleon

And curious creatures that we are, in every sense of the word. Not only are we the sole animal in all of nature capable of believing in Santa Claus, we are also the only one that can come to grips with the unpleasant truth that he doesn’t exist. – Jon Franklin

As human beings, we cannot perfect ourselves. To the degree to which we align ourselves with correct principles, divine endowments will be released within our nature in enabling us to fulfill the measure of our creation. – Stephen Covey

Believe in the future by creating it first. – Hugh Macleod

Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. The freedom to fail comes from experience. That’s what gives the thre lucky ones individuality. – Peter Gabriel

Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einstein

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith, not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you’re doing. – Twyla Tharp

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another. – Albert Einstein

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality. – Albert Einstein   

I cannot imagine a god who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation. – Albert Einstein      

I find it surprising that society thinks of specialization as logical, necessary, desirable, if not inevitable. I observe that when nature wants to make a specialist, she’s very good at it, whereas she seems to have designed man to be a very generally adaptable creature, by far the most adaptable creature we know of. If nature had wanted man to be a specialist, I am sure she would have grown him with one eye and a microscope on it. – Buckminster Fuller

I work like a gardener…Things come slowly…Things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. I must graft. I must water… Ripening goes on in my mind. So I’m always working at a great many things at the same time. – Joan Miró

If I had not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. – Anais Nin

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative. – David Ogilvy

It is my hope that those who have an inkling to play, write, perform or otherwise, do so. If not for yourself then for the rest of us. It’s not only that the world needs more artists, it’s also just a lot of fun. – Chick Corea

It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to. – Jean-Luc Godard

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. – Carl Sagan

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. – Benjamin Disraeli

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life. – Miles Davis

Q: When is the best time to plant a fruit tree? A: Five years ago. – Gardener

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift. The rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. – Albert Einstein

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. – James Michener

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself. – Deepak Chopra

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources… The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. – Albert Einstein

There is no perfect plan and one of the great fallacies is that you can create one. – Hugh Macleod

Thought creates after its own kind. – Claude Bristol

To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage. – Georgia O’Keeffe

What I cannot create, I do not understand. – Richard Feynman

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. – Anne Lamott

You can’t have it both ways: You can’t be creative, and conform too. What makes you different also makes you creative. – Arno Penzias

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. – Maya Angelou

You create your own universe as you go along – Winston Churchill

Brain Quotes Worth Reading Twice

I use not only the brains I have, but all I can borrow. – Woodrow Wilson

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. – Arnold H Glasow

It is of no use to convince others of our spiritual and intellectual equality by way of reason, since others’ attitude does not come by way of their brains. We must instead emancipate ourselves socially and satisfy our own social requirements. – Albert Einstein 

I’ve given up on my brain. I’ve torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. – Rumi

Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer. – Naasim Haramein

My brain is only a receiver. In the universe is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, and inspiration. – Nikola Tesla

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. You know what you know. You’re the one who’ll decide where you’ll go. – Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel

Your brain is in your skull, your mind is not. Your mind is in every cell of your body. – Neale Donald Walsch

Decision Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Every day you decide how you’re going to use your energy by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. – Oprah

Forgive ourselves over and over and over again. Then decide to do better next time. – Epictetus

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. – Coco Chanel

I have decided to be happy because it’s good for my health. – Voltaire

If you don’t make a decision about how you are going to live, then you have already made a decision, haven’t you? – Tony Robbins

If you don’t know words well, you don’t know how to decide words well, and if you don’t know how to decide words well, then others will decide them for you. – Beat Schindler

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make. – Lewis Carroll

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. – Tony Robbins

Learn to focus your decisions on your needs, not theirs. – Robert Cialdini

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant. – Viktor Frankl

Once we have clarified our vision, many decisions are already made. – Walt Disney

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting. – Nick Murray

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones. – Warren Buffet

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. – Amelia Earhart

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. – Voltaire

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decided to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. – William Hutchison Murray

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. – Joan Baez

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. You know what you know. You’re the one who’ll decide where you’ll go. – Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel

Write Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do, to face the fact, let’s say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies across the street. – Stephen King

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it. – Roald Dahl

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. – Richard Bach

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. – William Faulkner

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. – Ernest Hemingway

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. – Anne Lamott

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. – Oscar Wilde

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation. Bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do, to face the fact, let’s say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies across the street. – Stephen King

Being a writer is not just about typing. It’s also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey. – Joanna Penn

By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this. – Roald Dahl

Easy reading is damn hard writing. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. – Virginia Woolf

First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little. – Ingmar Bergman

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else’s head. – Malcolm Gladwell

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. All they do is show you’ve been to college. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

History can be written in a simple little formula: Challenge, Response. – Arnold Toynbee

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. – Henry David Thoreau

I can shake off everything as I write. My sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. – Anne Frank

I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures … We’re writers. We’re doing something that is inherently a generous act. We’re exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you’re not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that’s secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this. – Seth Godin

I write books. 5 of them so far, and probably more once I forget how painful writing books is. – Daniel Pink

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately, it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp. – Somerset Maugham

I write to discover what I know. – Flannery O’Connor

I’m more of a downhill skier. I try to go as fast as I can and then I have to backtrack a lot and fill in revisions. – Margaret Atwood

I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter. – James Michener

I’ve written because it fulfilled me. Maybe it paid off the mortgage on the house and got the kids through college, but those things were on the side. I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever. – Stephen King

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. – Ernest Hemingway

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. – Margaret Atwood

If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison

If writing seems hard, it’s because it is hard. It’s one of the hardest things people do… If it’s not clear you might as well not write it. You might as well stay in bed. – William Zinsser

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered… If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. – Stephen King

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. – Gaius Plinius the Elder

It usually takes more than three weeks to write an impromptu speech. – Mark Twain

It’s not the dazzling voice that makes a singer. Or clever stories that make a writer. And it’s not piles of money that give you power.  It’s having a dream so strong you rather go for it and fail than succeed with anything less. You so have what it takes. – Mike Dooley

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. – Ray Bradbury

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. – Robert Frost

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. It seems to me that the growth of a poet is related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more. – Marvin Bell

Publishing is making public your enthusiasm. – Unknown

Substitute damn every time you’re inclined to write very. Your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. – Mark Twain

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day… you will never be stuck. – Ernest Hemingway

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. – Anthony Lee Iaccoca

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. – Terry Pratchett

The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. – Alvin Toffler

The moment I write about the tiger, the tiger isn’t the tiger, he becomes a set of words. – Jorge Luis Borges

The writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. – Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. – Somerset Maugham

There is no way to write a six-page, narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking. – Jeff Bezos

There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write. – Terry Pratchett

There’s nothing like actually writing something out to clarify thinking. – Warren Buffet

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. – Anaïs Nin

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. – Samuel Johnson

What gets in the way of writing is having to use words. – Clarice Lispector

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, “I am going to produce a work of art.” I write it because there is some lie I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. – George Orwell

When I was writing the Chorus in G Minor, I suddenly dipped my pen into the medicine bottle instead of the ink pot. I made a blot, and when I dried it with sand (blotting paper had not been invented then) it took the form of a natural, which instantly gave me the idea of the effect which the change from G Minor to G Major would make, and to this blot all the effect – if any – is due. – Rossini

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done. – Stephen King

Write hard and clear about what hurts. Write drunk, edit sober. – Ernest Hemingway

‎Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows. – Joseph Campbell

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. – David Sedaris

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. – Gene Fowler

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole journey that way.” – E L Doctorow

Writing is refined thinking… Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well… Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it … I have written because it fulfilled me. Maybe it paid off the mortgage on the house and got the kids through college, but those things were on the side — I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for the joy, you can do it forever. – Stephen King

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

You fail only if you stop writing. – Ray Bradbury

You have to resign yourself to wasting lots of trees before you write anything really good. That’s just how it is. It’s like learning an instrument. You’ve got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot. That’s just part of the learning process. – J.K. Rowling

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grownups, then you write it for children. – Madeleine L’Engle

You live, you die, you write. – Francoise Sagan

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow

Genius Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. – Isaac D’Israeli

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. – Albert Einstein

Everybody is born a genius, but the process of growing up de-geniuses you. – Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – George Lichtenberg

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sticking to it is the genius! – Thomas Edison

The secret to genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age. – Aldous Huxley

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. – Marshall McLuhan

Unrewarded geniuses are almost a proverb. – Calvin Coolidge

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know her by this sign, the dunces are all in confederacy against her. – Jonathan Swift

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Word Quotes Worth Reading Twice

In the beginning is the word. – Word-masters

A crowd of word-users is far less intelligent than any one of its members.– Beat Schindler

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

A word after a word after a word is power. – Margaret Atwood

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. – Emily Dickinson

A word-user is an animal that has discovered something more interesting than sex.– Beat Schindler

Action speaks louder than words, but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain

All I know is what I have words for. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

Among the things you can give and still keep is your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. – Zig Ziglar

And curious creatures that we are, in every sense of the word. Not only are we the sole animal in all of nature capable of believing in Santa Claus, we are also the only one that can come to grips with the unpleasant truth that he doesn’t exist. – Jon Franklin

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. – Stephen King

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking. – Warren Buffet

Belief in energy is the vice of a few intelligent word-users. – Beat Schindler

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace. – Buddha

Brave people, be careful of the things you say! Everything can come out of a word you lose in passing, EVERYTHING, hatred and mourning! And don’t tell me that your friends are safe and that you speak low, listen to this: Head to head, in slippers, doors closed, at home, without a witness breathing, you say in the ear of the most mysterious of your friends, or if you prefer, you whisper all alone, almost believing you’re keeping quiet, in the depths of a cellar thirty feet underground, an unpleasant word to some individual. This WORD – which you believe no one heard, that you were saying so low in a deaf and dark place – runs as soon as it’s dropped, leaves, leaps, emerges from the shadows, look, it’s outside! He knows his way, he walks, he has two feet, a stick in his hand, good shoes, a passport in order, if need be, he’ll take wings, like the eagle! He escapes you, he flees, nothing can stop him. He follows the quay, crosses the square, crosses the water without a boat in flood season, and goes, through a maze of streets, straight to the citizen you mentioned. He knows the number, the floor, he has the key, he climbs the stairs, opens the door, passes, enters, arrives and mockingly, looking at the man opposite says: °Here I am! I’m coming out of so-and-so’s mouth.° And that’s it, you have a mortal enemy. – Victor Hugo

Consciousness comes into manifestation only when the man has used the word with full knowledge of what it means. – James Frederick Ferrier

Dancing word-users are thought to be insane by those who cannot hear the music. – Beat Schindler

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? – Marcel Marceau

Even the word-users proclaiming that everything is predestined still look both ways before they cross the street. – Beat Schindler

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk… Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking. – Stephen Hawking

From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn plays wasted words… disillusioned words like bullets bark. – Bob Dylan

Great music doesn’t take words, but great songs do. – Polo Hofer

He was in love with words, as was I. It was a magical time. – Jennifer Warnes

Hippocrates had no means of recognizing the heart as a pump because there was no such item in his world and no such word in his vocabulary. – Guido Majno

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. – Frances Hodgson Burnett

I do not believe that the same intelligence that has endowed the word-users with intelligence has intended them to forgo their use. – Beat Schindler

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way, things I had no words for. – Georgia O’Keeffe

I have no words for my reality. – Max Frisch

I like good strong words that mean something. – Louisa May Alcott

I simply set music to the words of defeat and turn it into a song. – Napoleon Hill

I think people talk too much, that’s the truth of the matter. I do. I don’t believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. – Michelangelo Antonioni

If the word doesn’t exist, invent it. But first, be sure it doesn’t exist. – Charles Baudelaire

If word-users don’t know words well, they won’t know how to decide words well, and if they don’t know how to decide words well, others will decide them for them. – Beat Schindler

If you look for the animal in a word-user, you’ll find it. – Beat Schindler

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. – Gaius Plinius the Elder

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed word-users are the hallucinating idiots. They see what no one else sees, things that to other word-users don’t exist. – Beat Schindler

In the true sense of the word, are we using what we’ve learned? In the true sense of the word, are we losing what we were? – Jack Johnson

It’s not what word-users look at that matters, it’s what they see. – Beat Schindler

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. – Susan Sontag

Lying is done with words, and also with silence. – Adrienne Rich

Maybe the many words is what’s preventing you from finding peace. – Hermann Hesse

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free of words. – Beat Schindler

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our words misunderstand us. – Adrienne Rich

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. – Rumi

Speak the words with the exact precision with which you would check out a laundry list. There’s a blaze of light in every word. Think of the words as science, not as art. – Leonard Cohen

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. – Martin Luther King Jr

Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. – Carl Jung

Technology is like a mirror. If a word-user looks in you cannot expect water to look out. Even though the word-user is 70% water, it’s inside and doesn’t show up in mirrors. – Beat Schindler

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. – Mark Twain

The mistake of mistakes is the apparently plausible notion that to say something one has to say something. But what the artist has to present is wordless. – Joseph Campbell

The moment I write about the tiger, the tiger isn’t the tiger, he becomes a set of words. – Jorge Luis Borges

The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That, with the squalid interpretation put on the word success, is our national disease. – William James

The most difficult subject can be explained to the most slow-witted word-users if they have not formed any idea of it already. The simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent word-users if they are firmly persuaded that they know already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before them. – Beat Schindler

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish. – Terence McKenna

The word water is itself undrinkable, and the formula H20 will not float a ship. – Alan Watts

The words a child speaks do not flow in a straight line, but in a curve, as if they wanted to fall back again into the silence. – Max Picard

The words fill my head and they fall to the floor, if God’s on our side he’ll stop the next war. – Bob Dylan

The words of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts, and their thoughts the preview of their actions. – John Locke

The words you speak become the house you live in. – Hafiz

There are 9 billion word-users out there, including many would-be censors, the agents of the status quo. Although their agendas may be different, they all want you to see words as taught at school, or to at least shut up when you see a word for what it is. – Beat Schindler

There are meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. – Haruki Murakami

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions. – Mike Dooley

There was a time when words and pictures were one. There was a time, words were pictures and pictures were words. – The Orhan Pamuk

They who are not master of words will always remain their servant. – Beat Schindler

To say of two words that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one word that it is identical with itself is to say nothing. – Beat Schindler

To see we must forget the word of the thing we are looking at. – Beat Schindler

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating. – Patrick Rothfuss

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. – Lao Tzu

What a word means, a sentence cannot say. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

What counts is not what word-users see, but to see that which no word-user sees. – Beat Schindler

What gets in the way of writing is having to use words. – Clarice Lispector

Whatever controls the word, controls you. – Beat Schindler

When you change how you look at words, you change. – Beat Schindler

When you no longer believe every word, you step out of words and see clearly that the word is not what you describe with it. – Beat Schindler

Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key. – Beat Schindler

Words are all we have. – Samuel Beckett

Words are not only in open books, they are an open book themselves. – Spinosa

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. – Rudyard Kipling

Words become works. – Seneca

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly. They’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. – Aldous Huxley

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. – Richard Feynman

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around. – Jane Goodall

Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. – Susan Sontag

Words sit on our noses, as it were, as glasses, and what we look at, we see through them. It doesn’t even occur to us to take them off. – Beat Schindler

Word-users are blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The word-users that get things done are the word-users that get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they don’t see them make them. – Beat Schindler

Word-users change according to how they look at words. If you change how you look at words, you change. – Beat Schindler

You are the deep innerness of all things. The last word that can never be spoken. To each of us, you reveal yourself differently. To the ship as a coastline, to the shore as a ship. – Rainer Maria Rilke

You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. – Milan Kundera

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you, that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass. – Bruce Lee