Salvador Dali Quotes

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Salvador Dali

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• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • College
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Moment
  • Wings
  • Plane

• Before I had my first child, I never really looked forward in anticipation to the future. As I watched my son grow and learn, I began to imagine the world this generation of children would live in. I thought of the children they would have, and of their children. I felt connected to life both before my time and beyond it. Children are our link to future generations that we will never see.

  

  Louise Hart
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

  

  George Benson
  • inspirational
  • Matter
  • Dignity

• Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Law
  • Church
  • Dating

• Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Empty
  • Empty Mind

• Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

  

  Tom Holt
  • Earth
  • Poetry
  • Deep

• We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Time
  • Expectations

• In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.

  

  Ursula Hegi
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Grace

• I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Girl
  • Wish
  • Married

• I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Pretty
  • Impressive

• Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Life
  • World
  • Knowledge

• Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • God
  • English
  • Bloody

• To walk before God and in His presence, is the ground and the costly jewel of true Christian living. I would have you above all things to grasp this firmly,because, when it is rightly understood and practiced, it includes all else.

  

  Gerhard Tersteegen
  • Christian
  • Walk
  • Ground

• Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Writers
  • Relation
  • Confusion

• Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Emotion
  • Mood

• Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Illusion

• What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Confusion
  • Spread
  • Eliminate