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2019-0907

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1800s | Author | individualism | Philosopher | Poet | Writer

2018-0219

The Americans are very impressionable people; they see what they want to see. I have a lot of respect for them. I am not upset at all that I ended up on this list. If they want to see the devil, let them see him.

Yevgeny Prigozhin

1900s | 2000s | Businessman | devil | politics | Russian

2018-0105

Beauty conforms to the demands of the spirit.

1900s | Artist | beauty | New York | New York City | Painter | spirit | U.S.

2017-1106

I often can’t tell if people are at peace or just being dull.

Charles Bukowski

1900s | Author | dull | funny | Poet | Writer

2017-1024

Talent is like the marksman who hits a target that others cannot reach, genius like one who hits a target beyond where others can even see…

Arthur Schopenhauer

1800s | genius | Philosopher | skill | talent

2017-0920

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

1800s | ideas | Physician | Poet | polymath | Writer

2017-0827

Excellence has no sex.

1900s | Artist | equality | excellence | German American | painting | Postminimalism | sculpture

2016-1101

…most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people.

Christopher Wolfgang Alexander

1900s | Architect | architecture | D.I.Y. | Design theorist | Designer | professor

2016-1025

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1900s | Aristocrat | Aviator | Journalist | leadership | motivation | Poet | Writer

2016-0815

You really can’t think of a self-driving vehicle as merely a car—fundamentally, it’s a robot on four wheels that looks and feels like a car.

2016 | A.I. | cars | code | Engineer | robot | science

2016-0123

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.

1900s | 2000s | amateur | b. 1946 | idiot

2015-0212

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with, he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

Henry David Thoreau

1800s | Author | ignorance | knowledge | self awareness | Writer

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