Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About d

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Design Future Happiness Postpone
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Bring Get Hour Paid
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Chances Design Else Fall
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Cannot Change Destination Direction
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Accomplishment Between Bridge Discipline
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Any Author Fiction Form
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Colors Important Notes Only
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Absolutely Agree Believe Clearly
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Attention Doing Gift Give
  Favorite Make wallpaper

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Disciplined Effort Every Multiple
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Education Formal Formal Education Fortune
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Awareness Create Food Light
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Any Ask Could First
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

Aware Could Give Hurt
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Applying Basic Consequence Consistently
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Determines Direction Go Sails
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Doing Extraordinarily Ordinary Ordinary Things
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

Asking Beginning Bucket Go
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Great Great Joy Greatness Himself
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Cannot Change Charge Circumstances
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Also Around Build Joy
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Envy Few Many Only
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Born Change Character Fingerprints
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Easy Entertained Grow Just
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Book Meal Miss You
  Favorite Make wallpaper
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
Change How Like Things
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

About Communication Effective Feel
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Cannot Decisions Fence Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Bad Enough Find Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Desire Loses Sense Urgency
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Able Draw Experience Future
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Day Errors Every Every Day
  Favorite Make wallpaper

So Lord Lugard's girlfriend named our country Nigeria! See why girlfriends are as powerful as wives in this country?

Girlfriend Powerful Wives Country
  Favorite Make wallpaper

For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

Hipsterism Codes Social Originality
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
Violent Writing Art
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.

Recording Watcher Passion People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity.

Movies Awkward Irregular Fashion
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.

Liberating Fulfilling Dream
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

Cinema Thankless Industry Appear
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Chorus Discord Does Even
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.

Personally Faction Movie Ciniphiles
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

America Continent Created Does
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.

Always Constantly Fountain Hard
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

Nature DNA IMAX Redefined
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Great His Language Limits
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
Design Costumes Movies
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Even More MoreAndMore Poetry
  Favorite Make wallpaper

An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.

Author Censorship Effective Indifference
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

Habit Films Father Absent
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

Cult Future Genre Harmony
  Favorite Make wallpaper