Quotes

“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.” Gore Vidal

“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.” Gore Vidal

“Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.” Gore Vidal

“A boy's story is the best that is ever told.” Charles Dickens

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” Charles Dickens

“A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.” Chet Atkins

“Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.” Chet Atkins

“Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.” Chet Atkins

“I'll always be poor in my mind.” Chet Atkins

“If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.” Chet Atkins

“Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.” Chet Atkins

“You shape your own destiny.” Chet Atkins

“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.” Charles Dickens

“Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.” Chet Atkins

“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.” Charles Dickens

“Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.” Charles Dickens

“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.” Charles Dickens

“He would make a lovely corpse.” Charles Dickens

“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.” Charles Dickens

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” Pablo Picasso

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Pablo Picasso

“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.” Pablo Picasso

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.” Leonardo da Vinci

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” Pablo Picasso

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.” Pablo Picasso

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” Leonardo da Vinci