Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea...
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Ayn Rand
I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.
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Thomas Keller
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
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Leonardo Da Vinci
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
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Deepak Chopra
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
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Chuck Palahniuk
More Quotes By Maria Semple
Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?
That was happiness. Not the framed greatest hits, but the moments in between. At the time, I hadn't pegged them as being particularly happy. But now, looking back at those phantom snapshots, I'm struck by my calm, my ease, the evident comfort with my life....
Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.
As far as I’m concerned, the only thing sweeter than seeing a friend is that friend canceling on me.
