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
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
Manuel Moroun
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Wallace Stevens
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
Nancy O'Dell
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I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
Jackee Harry
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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
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
Pankaj Mishra
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
Haile Gebrselassie
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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
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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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
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
Radhanath Swami
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The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.
Anita Borg
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You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.
Satya Nadella
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On the outside, the man or woman of today is carefully groomed, perhaps unnecessarily and over carefully clean; while inside, he or she is dirtier than the dirtiest animal.
Arnold Ehret
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"It" is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.
Aristotle
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Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
Edith Schaeffer
