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 William S. Burroughs
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
