David Wiesner Quotes

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• Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

  

  Gabriele D'Annunzio
  • Courage
  • Limit

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Way
  • Dog
  • Wrong

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I wake up some mornings hating me too.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Me
  • Wake Up

• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Heart
  • Brave
  • Judgment

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Success
  • Trouble
  • Adventure

• Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Miracles

• I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Myself
  • More
  • Iceland

• 'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Character

• Short cuts make long delays.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Short
  • Delays

• Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Done
  • Doing
  • Old

• Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Time
  • Book

• One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Reading

• There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable. Every day we’re writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that’s made all the difference. Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Trying

• With customers' permission, fintech firms have increasingly turned to data aggregators to 'screen scrape' information from financial accounts. In such cases, data aggregators collect and store online banking logins and passwords provided by the bank's customers and use them to log directly into the customer's banking account.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Financial

• Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Music
  • Problem

• "All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations"

  

  Nông Đức Mạnh
  • Equal
  • Countries
  • United Nations

• Before they read words, children are reading pictures.

  

  David Wiesner
  • Children
  • Words
  • Reading