"A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights."
Margaret Heffernan
"The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance."
Paul Washer
"True giving lies not in receiving but in giving."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
La Rochefoucauld
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
Blaise Pascal
"I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people."
Terry Pratchett
"Witchcraft involves being willing to understand and embrace your true self. It is about exploring your light and learning to celebrate your darkness."
Dacha Avelin
"I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have."
Andie MacDowell
"Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!"
Jonathan Ive
"Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat."
Elizabeth Peters
"Some people aren’t really light-teethed."
they’re merely dark-skinned.
"If we choose to behave differently, we are considered 'Mad' or 'immature."
Anamika Mishra
"And how does one basically recognize good development? In that a well-developed man does our senses good: that he is carved from wood which is hard, delicate, and sweet-smelling, all at the same time."
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