Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).
When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'
In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.
Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.
My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don't know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.
One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
