Naohiro Takahara Quotes

#1. Art should be expressed without objectification.It's more than just attraction. Creative expression is not "art for art's sake" but art that breathes true meaning.

Henry Johnson Jr

#2. When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

David Nevins

#3. When you embrace worthiness, you stop worrying about what "they" think because you've made peace with what YOU think.

Shannon Yvette Tanner

#4. Believe it or not, the bigger problem isn't scaling, it's getting to the point where you have to scale. Without the first problem you won't have the second.

Jason Fried

#5. Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Epictetus

#7. Carli's was a small club at the end of a passage between a sporting-goods store and a circulating library. There was a grilled door and a man behind it who had given up trying to look as if it mattered who came in. (Smart-Aleck Kill)

Raymond Chandler

#8. Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

Saint Augustine

#9. So ye've come back to him," he said happily. "God, that's romantic!

Diana Gabaldon

#10. The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Hugo Ball

#11. I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.

Madonna Ciccone

#12. The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#13. Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Elizabeth George