I rely on these quotations when I'm making, writing, hacking or dreaming. Maybe you can use them too.
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. Wernher von Braun
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden PhillpottsYou can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Sheila GrahamWe must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph CampbellLife is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen KellerThe work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.
Simone WeilI think I should have no other mortal wants if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
George EliotAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais NinLiving is a form of not being sure, not knowing what, next or how…The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de MilleThe notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.
Artur SchnabelWhen you perform…you are out of yourself – larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth.
Agnes de MilleThe real leaders are the ones who say, "I don't know. Let's find out."
Betty CohenNo two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind.
Napolean HillI am always doing that which I can not do in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo PicassoEveryone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
Nolan BushnellWe love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. Samuel Johnson
The power and resources of our intuition, imagination and unconscious are greater
than the rational mind can imagine.
Robert BurnsEvery man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
Henry MillerCommitment is never an act of moderation!
Kenneth G. MillsIt’s never too late to be who you might have been.
George EliotOnly God creates. The artist reveals.
George BalanchineEverything you can imagine is real.
Pablo PicassoIn creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell LowellA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry B. AdamsWhat is now proved was once only imagined.
William BlakeOne can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
GoetheA man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. KennedyThey who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allen Poe
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
Alfred North WhiteheadAnd if I can just add one more: Just because you’ve never done something before doesn’t mean you don’t know how to do it.
