Oh Land Quotes

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

There will always be people who will accept you for what you are!

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

How very wet this water is.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.