Ursula Nordstrom Quotes

#1. Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent.

Peter Sis

#2. Do your best when no one is looking.

Bob Cousy

#3. I am a former child, and I haven't forgotten a thing.

Ursula Nordstrom

#4. The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

Ursula Nordstrom

#5. Take your situation and pretend it is not happening to you. Pretend it is not important, that it doesn't matter. How much easier would it be for you to know what to do? How much more quickly and dispassionately could you size up the scenario and its options? You could write it off, greet it calmly.

Ryan Holiday

#6. The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we're lucky.

Ursula Nordstrom

#7. I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

Gavin Bryars

#8. Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.

T. Colin Campbell

#9. Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.

Ursula Nordstrom

#10. There is nothing that dictates behavior more than what we want others to think of us. When that happens, we become a reflection in our own mind of what we believe is reflected in the mind of another, neither of which has the slightest chance of being correct. Talk about dogs chasing tails.

Dee Hock

#11. That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.

Ursula Nordstrom

#12. I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

Barack Obama

#13. I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. It's either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple

Neil Simon