Edith Schaeffer Quotes

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

Edith Schaeffer

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• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Changed

• In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Feminist

• My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Father
  • Name
  • Grandfather

• Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Bad
  • Exercise
  • Eating

• The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Death

• I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • People
  • Together
  • Father

• My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Revelation
  • Final

• A thing final in itself and, therefore, good: One of the vast repetitions final in Themselves and, therefore, good, the going round And round and round, the merely going round, Until merely going round is a final good, The way wine comes at a table in a wood.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Good
  • Wine

• I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • World
  • God
  • Soul

• The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.

  

  Conrad Black
  • American

• They tell us it will be about 'emotions' and 'friendship,' that it will be a night of joy. Who are they kidding?

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Night
  • Joy
  • Friendship

• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we (humans) do.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • Cold

• It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

  

  John Archibald Wheeler
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Simple

• Terrorists are desperate assholes who see no institutionalized recourse to address their grievances, so they resort to random acts of violence in order to instill fear into the general population.4

  

  Ze Frank
  • Fear
  • Violence
  • Random

• I had a lot of great bosses - I worked for Gina Prince-Bythewood for two years, I worked for Ava Duvernay as a PA on her first narrative film, and I worked with Mara Brock Akil, so a lot of wonderful role models.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Great
  • Prince

• I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

  

  Emily Giffin
  • Age

• An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.

  

  Clifton Fadiman
  • Wisdom

• Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

  

  Edith Schaeffer