Donald Quotes

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."

There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff.

That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers.

Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose

I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.

You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.

My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.

The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power

Having the best product means nothing if the people won't buy it.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.