3 December 2020 David Viscott The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
3 December 2020 Herbie Hancock I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of the ways we learn.
3 December 2020 Eduard Hanslick An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
3 December 2020 Nikola Tesla Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
3 December 2020 Roland Gift I think I’m actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.
3 December 2020 Steve Jobs Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
3 December 2020 Rachel Bilson I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I’m going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I’m not having any work done.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
3 December 2020 Guy Verhofstadt Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
3 December 2020 Florence Griffith Joyner I’ve always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they’d give me the strength I needed.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
3 December 2020 Anthony Doerr I’ve been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
3 December 2020 Fareed Zakaria America’s growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with America’s growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
3 December 2020 James Madison A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
3 December 2020 Steve Irwin You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it’ll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it’s not even funny.
3 December 2020 Evan Rachel Wood I’ll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can’t, that’s just too creepy. I don’t think I can go there.
3 December 2020 Gavin MacLeod We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
3 December 2020 Gary Sheffield My dad’s a bodybuilder. My whole life I’ve been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
3 December 2020 Earl Wilson Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.