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20 Interesting Quotes

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1. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. —Albert Einstein

2. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. —Susan Erz

3. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. —Pablo Picasso

4. A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! —Pablo Sarasate

5. There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. —Don Herold

6. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. —Michael Althsuler

7. The little I know I owe to my ignorance. —Orville Mars

8. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —George Bernard Shaw

9. In God we trust; all others bring data. —Dr. W. Edwards Deming

10. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. —Mark Twain

11. Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. —Mark Twain

12. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

13. Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. —Dee Hock

14. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. —Albert Einstein

15. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.—Dwight D. Eisenhower

16. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. —Niels Bohr

17. Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them. —Unknown Author

18. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. —Arthur Schopenhauer

19. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. —Harry Truman

20. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. —Martin H. Fischer

Famous Short Quotes

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“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” –Pablo Picasso

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher

You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. –W. Clement Stone

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. – Rabindranth Tagore

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt. – Wei Wu Wei

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Gandhi

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. –Bill Cosby

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb

“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” – Jack Welch

“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.” – William J. H. Boetcker

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. –John Bowring

“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. – Eugene McCarthy

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot

Courage is a kind of salvation. –Plato

“I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.” – Russell Simmons

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. —André Gide

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – e.e. cummings

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

50 Best Inspirational Quotes

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1. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.” – Wallace Wattles

3. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

4. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitudes of his mind.” – William James

5. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

6. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

7. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

8. “You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” – John Addison

9. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

10. “An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.” – Wallace Wattles

11. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

12. “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” – Stephen Covey

13. “The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert

14. ”Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – Winston Churchill

15. “Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel Stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.” – Dara Henderson

16. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

17. “Vision without action is just a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world” – Nelson Mandela

18. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

19. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

20. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.” – Paulo Coelho

21. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

22. “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

23. “I have learned that it’s not WHAT I have in my life but WHO I have in my life that counts.” – Unknown

24. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

50 best inspirational quotes25. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

26. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

27. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Goethe

28. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined” – Henry James

29. “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

30. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers

31. “Try not. Do or do not. There is no Try.” – Yoda (Star Wars!)

32. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

33. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

34. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind” – Brian Tracy

35.“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

37. “When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.” – Estee Lauder

38. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

39. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

40. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

41. “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

42. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

43. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

44. “Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

45. “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston

46. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

47. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo

48. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

49. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Unknown

50. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Best Quotes by Famous People

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Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. – Pablo Picasso

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. – Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former – Albert Einstein

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. – George Burns

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. – Voltaire

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. –Samuel Johnson

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Alva Edison

give me a museum and i'll fill itA friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. – John D. Rockefeller

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. – Robert Frost

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. – John F. Kennedy

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. – Seneca

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. – Honore de Balzac

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning – Aristotle Onassis

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – M.K. Gandhi

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.” – Gloria Leonard

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.- Mark Twain

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say i- Voltaire

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity. – G.B. Shaw

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Photography Quotes

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Photography is probably the piece of art I love the most. Let me share with you some wonderful, inspiring, photography quotes.

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” – Ansel Adams

“No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.” ~ Robert Adams

“It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.“– James Lalropui Keivom

“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.” ~Ansel Adams

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” ~Ansel Adams

“I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it.” ~Anonymous

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” – Ansel Adams

“I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.” – Rick Steves

“Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.” – André Bazin

photography quotes“I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!” – Ansel Adams

“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop” – Ansel Adams

“A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.” – Roland Barthes

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” –Robert Capa

“Life is like a good black and white photograph, there’s black, there’s white, and lots of shades in between.” –Karl Heiner

“When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!” ~Ted Grant

“I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.” –Pablo Picasso

“Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.” – Susan Sontag

“You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.” – Anonymous

“I didn’t want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.” ~Wynn Bullock

“One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.” ~Anonymous

“I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.” ~Mary Ellen Mark

After this great piece of inspiration, please choose your favorite quote and write it on the comments section. Let’s see who’s the more liked one. Also, if you want, you can add some photography quotes that are not on the list. Thank you!

Famous People Quotes #2

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“The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” – E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

“Assassins!” – Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

“I’ll moider da bum.” – Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” – Yogi Berra

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” – Rene Descartes (1596-1650), “Discours de la Methode”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.” – Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’)

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns (1896-1996)

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.” – Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.” – Bjarne Stroustrup

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

Love Quotes

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Anyone here yelled for a great article of love quotes? Here it is, my friends. Some wonderful love quotes special selected for you and your girlfriend (or boyfriend).

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones

Where there is love there is life. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. – Pablo Picasso

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. – Oscar Wilde

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough. – Ann Landers

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. – Hoosier Farmer

Love is a language spoken by everyone, but understood only by a heart. – Shirley Rindani

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss

Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. – Jeanne Moreau

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health has vanished. – Og Mandingo

There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein

It is love that makes the impossible possible. – Indian Proverb

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. – Virgil

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert Heinlein

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it’s what you are expected to give — which is everything – Anonymous

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke

I’ve learned … that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them. – Andy Rooney

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. – Roy Croft

The best thing about me is you. – Shannon Crown

I can’t say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath. – Elvis Costello

I miss you a little, I guess you could say, a little too much, a little too often, and a little more each day. – Anonymous

Love is not blind, it sees but it doesn’t mind. – Rizi Jane Baldon

Love sees roses without thorns. – German Proverb

Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. – Kay Knudsen

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together. – Brian Andres

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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