Famous Quotes By Billy Corgan

 

1. A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
2. Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
3. For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
4. I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
5. I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
6. I like my home and I like the nature.
7. I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
8. I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
9. I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
10. If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
11. I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.
12. I'm not interested in pop art.
13. I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
14. I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.
15. In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
16. In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
17. I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.
18. Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.
19. Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
20. Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
21. Music is your guide.
22. One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
23. People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
24. Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
25. Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
26. Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
27. The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
28. The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
29. The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
30. There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.
31. There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.
32. To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
33. To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
34. We've turned into a whining society.
35. When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.
36. You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
37. You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
38. Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
39. You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

Famous Quotes By Dee Dee Myers

 

1. Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
2. As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.
3. As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.
4. As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
5. Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
6. Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
7. I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.
8. I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.
9. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.
10. It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
11. It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
12. My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.
13. Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.
14. Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm he's cool he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.
15. That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.
16. The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
17. The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
18. The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
19. This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
20. While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions.
21. You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

Famous Quotes By C. S. Lewis

 

1. A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
2. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
3. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
4. Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
5. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
6. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
7. Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.
8. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
9. Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
10. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
11. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
12. How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
13. Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
14. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
15. I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
16. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
17. Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
18. Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
19. Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
20. No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
21. Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
22. Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
23. Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
24. Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
25. The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
26. There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
27. Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
28. This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
29. What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
30. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Famous Quotes By Woodrow Wilson

 

1. A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
2. A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
3. A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
4. Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
5. Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
6. Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
7. Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
8. I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
9. I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
10. I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
11. If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
12. If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
13. If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
14. In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
15. Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
16. It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
17. Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
18. My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
19. Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
20. One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
21. Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
22. The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
23. The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
24. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
25. The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
26. The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
27. The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
28. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
29. There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
30. There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
31. There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
32. We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
33. You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Famous Quotes By Rush Limbaugh

 

1. Character matters leadership descends from character.
2. Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
3. Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
4. George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.
5. Government stimulates the democrat party.
6. How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
7. I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.
8. Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.
9. It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.
10. Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
11. Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
12. That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.
13. That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.
14. The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
15. The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.
16. The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
17. There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
18. There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.
19. We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
20. Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.
21. Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?
22. You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
23. You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.
24. You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Famous Quotes By Joseph Addison

 

1. A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
2. A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
3. A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
4. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
5. Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
6. Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
7. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
8. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
9. Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
10. I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
11. If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
12. If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
13. It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
14. Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
15. Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
16. Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
17. No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
18. Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
19. Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
20. Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
21. Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
22. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
23. The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
24. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
25. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
26. The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
27. There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
28. There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
29. There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
30. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
31. To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
32. To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
33. True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
34. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
35. Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

Famous Quotes By Beth Ditto

 

1. A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'
2. All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.
3. Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
4. As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
5. As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
6. For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
7. 'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.
8. I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.
9. I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?
10. I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.
11. I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
12. I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.
13. I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.
14. I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
15. My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
16. My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.
17. Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
18. We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.
19. When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.
20. When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
21. When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
22. You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.

Famous Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

1. A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
2. A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
3. A new untruth is better than an old truth.
4. Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
5. But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
6. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
7. Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
8. Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
9. Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
10. Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
11. Have the courage to act instead of react.
12. I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
13. I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
14. If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
15. If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
16. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
17. It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
18. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
19. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
20. Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
21. Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
22. Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.
23. Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
24. Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
25. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
26. Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
27. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
28. Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
29. The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
30. The Amen of nature is always a flower.
31. The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
32. The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
33. The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
34. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
35. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
36. Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
37. Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
38. Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
39. Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
40. Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Famous Quotes By Charles Caleb Colton

 

1. Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
2. Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
3. Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
4. Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
5. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
6. Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
7. Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
8. Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
9. He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
10. If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
11. In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
12. In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
13. Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
14. Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
15. Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
16. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
17. Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
18. Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
19. Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
20. Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
21. Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
22. No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
23. Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
24. Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
25. Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
26. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
27. That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
28. The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
29. The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
30. The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
31. The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
32. There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
33. There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
34. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
35. To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
36. To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
37. True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
38. War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
39. We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
40. We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Famous Quotes By Katy Perry

 

1. For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.
2. Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.
3. I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.
4. I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.
5. I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.
6. I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.
7. I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'
8. I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.
9. I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.
10. I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
11. I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.
12. I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.
13. I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.
14. I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.
15. I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.
16. I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.
17. If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.
18. I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.
19. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.
20. I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.
21. I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.
22. I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.
23. I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.
24. It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.
25. I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.
26. I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.
27. My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.
28. My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.
29. Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.
30. One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.
31. Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.
32. The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.
33. There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams.You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

Famous Quotes By Pablo Picasso

 

1. Action is the foundational key to all success.
2. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
3. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
4. Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
5. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
6. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
7. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
8. Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
9. God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
10. Good artists copy, great artists steal.
11. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
12. I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
13. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
14. I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
15. If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
16. It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
17. It takes a long time to become young.
18. Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
19. My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
20. Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
21. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
22. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
23. Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
24. Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
25. Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
26. Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
27. The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
28. The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
29. The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
30. The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
31. There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
32. There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
33. To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
34. We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
35. We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
36. Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
37. Youth has no age.

Famous Quotes By Charles Baudelaire

 

1. A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
2. Always be a poet, even in prose.
3. An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
4. Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
5. Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
6. Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
7. Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
8. Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
9. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
10. Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
11. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.
12. For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
13. France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
14. I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
15. I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
16. I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
17. It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
18. It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
19. It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
20. It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
21. Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
22. Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
23. Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
24. Music fathoms the sky.
25. Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
26. Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
27. Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
28. The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
29. The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
30. The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
31. The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
32. The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
33. There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
34. There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
35. This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
36. Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
37. To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
38. What is art? Prostitution.
39. Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
40. Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Famous Quotes By Colin Powell

 

1. 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
2. A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
3. Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
4. Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
5. Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
6. Get mad, then get over it.
7. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
8. I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
9. I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
10. I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
11. I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
12. If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
13. In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.
14. In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
15. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
16. It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
17. Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!
18. Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
19. My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
20. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
21. Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
22. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
23. Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
24. The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
25. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
26. Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
27. War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
28. We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
29. We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
30. We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
31. What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
32. Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Famous Quotes By Shia LaBeouf

 

1. A relationship to me is never about the romance.
2. At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
3. Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
4. I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
5. I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.
6. I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.
7. I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.
8. I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
9. I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.
10. I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.
11. I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
12. I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.
13. I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.
14. I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.
15. If I have enough money to eat I'm good.
16. I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
17. I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.
18. I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.
19. I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
20. I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.
21. Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
22. My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
23. My family, my parents are hippies.
24. My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
25. My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money.
26. My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
27. My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
28. Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.
29. So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.
30. The best movies are simple.
31. The comic book world is a tough business.
32. There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.
33. They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.
34. To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
35. Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
36. What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
37. When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
38. When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
39. You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

Famous Quotes By Benjamin Carson

 

1. Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.
2. Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
3. Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
4. Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
5. I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
6. I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
7. I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.
8. I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
9. Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
10. In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
11. Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
12. My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.
13. No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
14. Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
15. Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
16. People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
17. Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
18. There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
19. There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
20. This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
21. Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
22. We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
23. We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.
24. We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
25. We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
26. With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
27. You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
28. You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.