Percy Fitzwallace Quotes

#1. Creative ideas make people uncomfortable. It turns out that, at least subconsciously, we can have a hard time recognizing ideas as both new and useful at the same time. This cognitive dissonance between creativity and practicality may actually create a subtle bias against creative ideas.

David Burkus

#2. Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.

Barney Frank

#3. It's been said that there is always one identifiable moment in one's life that shapes the course of where the rest of one's existence will lead one.

Sherry Ewing

#4. I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

Pete Townshend

#5. I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Suffering did different things to different people ... Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

Naomi Ragen

#7. From early childhood his mother had taught him that to discuss in public a profound emotional experience-which, in the open air, immediately evanesces and fades, and, oddly, becomes similar to an analogous experience of one's interlocutor-was not only vulgar, but also a sin against sentiment.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

Leon Battista Alberti

#9. I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.

Neel Mukherjee

#10. When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you.
This is crazy.
I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.

James Cameron

#11. And here's to the blues, the real blues - where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

David Mutti Clark

#12. The words are so full of smoke and mirrors that it's impossible to find a real person behind them.

Gayle Forman

#13. Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind.

Norman Mailer