Deux Par Quotes

#1. The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

Josh Linkner

#2. Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

Ralph Marston

#3. There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
[Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#4. Reading is important.

John Garfield

#5. We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

Douglas Kennedy

#6. The dance of the flower in the wind, in the sun, in the rain, cannot be understood by the head; the heart has to be open for it.

Rajneesh

#7. Even through my good-looking youth, I wasn't called on for any romantic parts, which is okay. What I was called on to do, I enjoyed doing. The funny thing about life is that if you live long enough, I think, you'll get every wish you ever had. It'll all come true.

Morgan Freeman

#8. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#9. The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.

Madeleine K. Albright

#10. I don't think it's things that used to be that haunt us, but things that could have been.

Matthew Baker

#11. Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian
that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

John Dryden

#12. Zeroth law: You must play the game
First law: You can't win
Second law: You can't break even
Third law: You can't quit the game.

C.P. Snow

#13. People cannot be controlled. Only our reactions can.

Mary Mihalic

#14. I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Kathy Acker