Nikola Tesla

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

Nikola Tesla

I don't care that they stole my idea… I care that they don't have any of their own.

Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Plato

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Dieter Rams

Good design is as little design as possible.

Louis XIV (...his last words)

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

Roger Ebert

To put it bluntly, I believe the world is patriarchal because men are bigger and stronger than women, and can beat them up.

Virgil Thomson

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Cannonball Adderley

You know sometimes we’re not prepared for adversity. When it happens sometimes we’re caught short. We don’t know exactly how to handle it when it comes up. Sometimes we don’t know just what to do when adversity takes over and I have advice for all of us. I got it from my pianist Joe Zawinul who wrote this tune and it sounds like what you’re supposed to say when you have that kind of problem and its called Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.

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Colin Powell

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Thomas Jefferson

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Marilyn Suttle

Thank your customer for complaining and mean it. Most will never bother to complain. They'll just walk away.

Mother Teresa

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Bill Evans

I believe in things that are developed through hard work. I always like people who have developed long and hard, especially through introspection and a lot of dedication. I think what they arrive at is usually a much deeper and more beautiful thing than the person who seems to have that ability and fluidity from the beginning. I say this because it's a good message to give to young talents who feel as I used to.

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Leo Tolstoy

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Andy Warhol

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes even when the people in it do.

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Abraham Lincoln

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Bertrand Russell

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Josiah Charles Stamp

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Winston Churchhill

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

Corrie Ten Boom

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Matthew 6:23-24 NIV

²³ But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

²⁴ “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Walt Disney

If there were no change, there would be no butterflies.

French Proverb

Only fools don't change their minds.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Thomas A. Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Gilbert Murray

A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won't go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won't go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.