Category: Quotations

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity.  Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. John Updike (1932-2009)

He that knew all that learning ever writKnew only this – that he knew nothing yet.Aphra Behn

Three failures denote uncommon strength.  A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.Minna Thomas Antrim

You’re gonna die ultimately, right?  Your life is a negative-expectation game.  No matter what you do, you’re dead.  You can eat your broccoli.  You can take the whole thing and just shove it in your mouth.  You’re still gonna die.  But by doing what you do, you can push off death another few months, a…

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.Abraham Lincoln

Don’t be discouraged by a failure.  It can be a positive experience.  Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.John Keats

What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.Henry David Thoreau