Quotes of: Leonardo-da-vinci Keyword

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.

Journals

Çoğu insan Kafka'nın ihtiyarına benzer. Umut ederler ama yüreklerinin sesini, itkisini dinleme ve ona göre davranma yetisinden yoksundurlar; bürokratlar onlara yeşil ışık yakmadığı sürece beklerler de beklerler.

The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology

...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.

Stop the Insanity: Target 2014

(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their complete inversion.

The Square Book

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

The Nicomachean Ethics

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

The Nicomachean Ethics

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...

The Nicomachean Ethics

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany

On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.

A Little Compendium on That Which Matters

...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude.

Life with Picasso

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Selected Works

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Selected Works

A SWOT analysis involves asking, "What are our strengths and weaknesses? What are our opportunities? What are the threats?

The Power of Why: Simple Questions That Lead to Success

How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then her eyes--and the worst kissing lips in the universe.

The Provoked Wife

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.

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