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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler
Buy
Books
Easier
Simpler
Absorb
Read
Contents
Than
Them
Much
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
Adrienne Clarkson
You
Will
Glorious
Creation
Society
Added
Our
Those
Horizon
Noble
Like
Piece
Conception
Cathedrals
Builder
Artful
Stone
Which
Your
Medieval
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
Agnes Martin
Art
Feelings
Our
Most
Concrete
Representation
Subtle
People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?
Agnes Martin
Happiness
Morning
You
Happy
People
Wake Up
Feeling
Painting
Say
Like
Look
Makes
Goal
Wake
Up
Them
Who
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Alanis Morissette
Will
Job
Boss
Knows
Always
How
His
Person
Who
Why
Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
Alanis Morissette
Conversation
Quality
Courage
New Things
Willingness
Trip
Scary
New
Spontaneous
Attractive
Go
Go For It
Trying
Just
Whether
Really
Things
Talent is talent, but fashion is separate, and it shouldn't be used to judge me as a singer.
Alessia Cara
Fashion
Me
Judge
Talent
Singer
Judge Me
Separate
Used
Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.
Alessia Cara
Good
You
Not Good Enough
Think
Too
Enough
Everyone
Perfect
Feels
Like
Realize
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
Alice Munro
Simple
Nothing
Complexity
Easy
Seems
Within
Endless
Just
Mean
Things
By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.
Ann Voskamp
Life
Weary
Live
Dare
Wounded
Through
Part
Taken
Simply
Most
Exist
Survive
Get
Jaded
Apathetic
Us
Grown
Default
Numb
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
Ann Voskamp
Truth
Lie
Worth
Value
Scale
Scales
Significance
About
Make
Always
Ever
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
Ann Voskamp
You
Soul
Joy
Thug
Somebody
Down
More
Beats
Makes
Than
Your
Who
Even
Comparison
You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
Atom Egoyan
You
Genocide
Denial
Has-Been
About
Part
Most
Armenian
Talk
Armenian Genocide
How
Been
Forgotten
Holocaust
Really
Compelling
Marginal
Forget about style; worry about results.
Bobby Orr
Style
Worry
About
Results
Forget
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
Brendan Myers
Loneliness
Me
Experience
Solitude
People
Isolation
Some
Point
Clear
Most
Encounter
Anyone
Anywhere
Lives
Things
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
Carrie-Anne Moss
Inspirational
Life
Religion
You
People
World
Mind
Parents
Own
Design
Think
Sets
Way
Rules
Tell
TV
Point
Nobody
Schools
Looks
Make
Make Up
How
Up
Realize
Then
Certain
Your
Certain Point
Certain Way
Lucky
I believe in karma.
Chad Kroeger
Karma
Believe
Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.
Christopher Heyerdahl
Great
Nature
You
Mother
Equalizer
Mother Nature
Get
Away
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.
Chrystia Freeland
Silence
World
Criticism
Leader
First
Admired
Seek
Abroad
Outside
Outside World
Like
Most
Least
Praised
Source
Authoritarian
Often
Repressive
Cannot
Even
I'd say that I'm a very friendly, outgoing, happy person who just wants to make the people around me happy.
Cindy Busby
Me
Happy
People
Say
Outgoing
Make
Around
Friendly
Very
Person
Just
Wants
Happy Person
Who
I am learning that in life it is OK to travel in darkness, not knowing what your next move is.
Cobie Smulders
Life
Travel
Learning
Darkness
Not Knowing
OK
Knowing
Am
Move
Next
Your
What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.
Corey Haim
Good
Me
You
Stream
Better
Girl
Kiss
Feeling
Swimming
Think
Those
Inside
Kissing
Through
Feel
Like
Does
Dolphins
Blood
Get
Stomach
Any
Mean
Really
Certain
Your
In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
Denis Villeneuve
Truth
You
Paradox
Find
Contradiction
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.
Don Tapscott
Learning
Yourself
Innovation
Problem
Better
Important
Every
Our
Collaborate
Collaboration
Way
Our Lives
Penetrating
Solving
Spirit
Life-Long
Part
Better Way
Institution
Economy
Learn
Because
Effectiveness
Just
Problem-Solving
Just Because
Lives
Ever-Changing
When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?
Douglas Coupland
You
World
Too Much
Too
Way
Recognition
Stay
Emerges
Emerging
Only
Throws
Look
Line
Survive
Information
Pattern
Straight
Straight Line
Much
Sane
Amidst
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
Douglas Coupland
Good
Long
Nothing
Lasts
Bad
Very
Ever
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