Quotations

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

 

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Dr. Seuss

Imagination is more important than knowledge…

Albert Einstein

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet, ‘Meditations Divine and Moral,’ 1655

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

Some people make headlines while others make history.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

Ralph Charell

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.

Leonard Bernstein