Gebroeders Nijs Quotes

#1. Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.

Boland T. Jones

#2. Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.

Richard Baxter

#3. I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

I.J. Parker

#4. Healing is a deeply private process and, honestly, you're not welcome to be a part of it. But you will have given me a short furlough from the dark, sorry prison of my mind, and that gift, precious in its own right, is really the best you can hope to offer.

Jonathan Tropper

#5. One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

#6. A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

Michael Lewis

#7. Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

William Mortensen

#8. If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

Arthur Smith

#9. Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were first discovered.

Alex Bellos

#10. Identifying Your Dream
Some people can easily identify one primary dream. For others, a dream is more elusive. These people often have many dreams at once, or a general idea of a dream that never takes a specific shape.

SARK

#11. I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.

Busy Philipps

#12. She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.

Elisabeth Elliot

#13. No matter how hard we work, there is always a gap with Western brands.

Li Shufu

#14. Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.

John Perry

#15. But my biggest joy and best education and proudest achievement has been being able to show up for work and life and not cause too much trouble a day at a time in spite of my hysterical, somewhat dramatic, nature.

Mark Vonnegut