No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. Friedrich Nietzsche
The odds are irrelevant; if it’s possible and it matters, you take the shot and you never give up. Regina Dugan
Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name. Bill Buxton
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. Alice Munro
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own. Margaret Wise Brown
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. Ray Bradbury
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. Oliver Sacks
My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. Oliver Sacks
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. Marshall McLuhan
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. Marshall McLuhan
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. Marshall McLuhan
