Khushwant Singh Famous Quotes

“Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.”

“Not forever does the bulbul sing
In balmy shades of bowers,
Not forever lasts the spring
Nor ever blossom the flowers.
Not forever reigneth joy,
Sets the sun on days of bliss,
Friendships not forever last,
They know not life, who know not this.”

“The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned”

“When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is  the sky in which thoughts twinkle  stars.”

“Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.”

“That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whiskey. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living,”

“Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.”

“Once through this ruined city did I pass
I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked
‘What knowest thou of this wilderness?’
It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words:
‘Alas, Alas!”

“I am back in my beloved city. The scene of desolation fills my eyes with tears. At every step my distress and agitation increases. I cannot recognize houses or landmarks I once knew well. Of the former inhabitants, there is no trace. Everywhere there is a terrible emptiness. All at once I find myself in the quarter where I once resided. I recall the life I used to live: meeting friends in the evening, reciting poetry, making love, spending sleepless nights pining for beautiful women and writing verses on their long tresses which held me captive. That was life! What is there left of it? Nothing.”

“I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib”

“But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.”

“The Hindus hatred of the Mussalmans did not make sense to me. The Muslims had conquered Hindustan. Why hadn’t our gods saved us from them? There was that Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni who had invaded Hindustan seventeen, times—not once or twice but seventeen times. He had destroyed the temple of Chakraswamy at Thanesar and nothing happened to him. Then Somnath. They said that even the sea prostrated itself twice every twenty-four hours to touch the feet of Somnath. But even the sea did not rise to save Somnathji from Mahmud.”

“It was again to the Prophet Musa that Allah conveyed the essence of true religion. The Almighty said. ‘I was sick, and you did not come to see me. I was hungry, and you did not give me food.’ Musa asked ‘My God, can you also be sick and hungry?’ God replied ‘My servant so-and-so was sick, and my servant so-and-so was hungry. If you had visited one and fed the other, you would have found me with them.”

“If the blanket of man’s fate has been woven black, even the waters of Zam Zam and Kausar cannot wash it white.”

“One Sikh may argue with one Sikh. One Sikh must never argue with two Sikhs–certainly not after dark.”

“India is constipated with a lot of humbug. Take modern Indian music of the films. It is all tango & rhumba or samba played on Hawaiian guitars, violins, accordions & clarinets. It is ugly. It must be scrapped  the rest.”

“Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.”

“I realized that I belonged neither to the Hindus nor to the Mussalmans. How could I explain to my wife that while the Brahmins lived on offerings made to their gods, the Rajputs and the Jats had their lands, Aheers and the Gujars their cattle, the Banias their shops, all that the poor Kayasthas had were their brains and their reed pens! And the only people who could pay for their brains and their pens were the rulers who were Muslims!”

“But if they asked me ‘Abdullah when will you become a true Muslim?’ I would reply ‘Soon, if that be the will of God— Inshallah.’ If anyone asked me whether we were Hindus or Mussalmans, we would reply we were both. Nizamuddin was our umbrella against the burning sun of Muslim bigotry and the downpour of Hindu contempt.”

“How downhearted was Meer at night! Whatever came to his lips became a cry for help. When he started on the path of love, he was  fire; Now it’s ended he is a heap of ashes on a pyre.”

“The eye hath ruined me,’ the heart complained. ‘The heart has lost me,’ the eye replied. I know not which told the truth, which lied Between, the two, it was Meer who died.”

“There was another matter which caused much disturbance in our mind: the viciousness of sibling rivalry. We knew that kingship knows no kinship. No bridge of affection spans the abyss that separates a monarch from his sons; no bonds of affection exist between the sons of kings. Sired though they may have been by the same loins, lain in succession in the same womb and suckled the same breasts, no sooner were they old enough to know the world than they understood that they must destroy their siblings or be destroyed themselves.”

“When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.”

“If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever...”

“We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur.”

“His (Juggut Singh's) equation with authority was simple: he was on the other side. Personalities did not come into it. Subinspectors & policemen were people in khaki who frequently arrested him, always abused him, and sometimes beat him. Since they abused him and beat him without anger or hate, they were not human beings with names. They were only denominations one tried to get the better of. If one failed, it was just bad luck.”

“Little mother of ancient days: Thou hast cunningly dyed thy hair but consider That thy bent back will never be straight!”

“We had heard that the people of Delhi loved their city as bees love flowers. But we could not believe that the child of a courtesan would prefer to live in a Delhi brothel rather than in our palace in Iran!”

“A Turk for toughness, for hands that never tire; An Indian for her rounded bosom bursting with milk; A Persian for her tight crotch and her coquetry; An Uzbeg to thrash as a lesson for the three.”

“The Muslims had become masters of Hindustan. They were quite willing to let us Hindus live our lives as we wanted to provided we recognized them as our rulers. But the Hindus were full of foolish pride. ‘This is our country!’ they said. ‘We will drive out these cow-killers and destroyers of our temples.’ They were especially contemptuous towards Hindus who had embraced Islam and treated them worse than untouchables.”

“He told us of an incident from the life of the Prophet Musa. Musa heard a poor shepherd praying: ‘Where art Thou that I may serve Thee? I will mend Thy boots, comb Thy hair, give Thee milk from my goats.’ Musa reprimanded the shepherd for so speaking to God. God in His turn reprimanded Musa. ‘Thou hast driven away one of my true servants.”

“No sooner would a mushaira start than the audience would clamour for ‘Parwana’ (moth) the pseudonym which he used. (I always referred to him as patanga which is the pejorative for a moth).”

“O Sage ! the stomach is the prison house of wind, The sagacious contain it not in captivity, If wind torment thy belly, release it, fart; For the wind in the stomach is like a stone on the heart.”

Richard Willliams Quotes

Richard Williams is a Canadian-British animator, born on 19 March,1933.

He wrote the famous book named "The Animator's Survival Kit"

Famous quotes by Richard Willliam:

"All my life I've been waiting for this, and now it can happen. A Williams is going to win."

"We are from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous."


"These players are prima donnas.They need to educate themselves so they don't make such stupid remarks."

"However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature'; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that."

"Los soldados siempre deberían ser reacios a marchar a la guerra, barón. Son los aficionados quienes están ansiosos por hacerlo. 

or

Soldiers should always be reluctant to go to war, Baron. They are fans who are eager to do so."

Neville Chamberlain Famous Quotes

I believe it is peace in our time.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.





We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.



We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbors, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

Job

" If you hire people just because they can do a job, they will work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they will work for you with blood and sweat and tears."

-Simon Sinek

Warren Buffett: Excellent tips

• On Earnings: "Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source."
  

• On Expectation: "Honesty is a very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people."

• On  Investment: "Do not pull all eggs in one basket."

• On Savings: "Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving."

• On Spending: "If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need."

• On Taking Risks: "Never test the depth of river with both feet."

Michael Jordan Quotes

Michael Jordan also known by his initials, MJ, is an American former basketball player, entrepreneur.
He was born on February 17,1963. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time."

Famous Quotes by Michael Jordan:


“Make It Happen”

“I Own the guy guarding me.”

“The key to success is failure.”

“I failed so therefore I succeed.”

“The best come from the worst.”

“Not every flying hero has a cape.”

“There is no "I" in team but there is in win.”

“I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.”

“To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”

“Learning's a gift, even when "pain" is your teacher!”

“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

“I can accept failure but I can not accept not trying.”

“If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!”

“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”

“Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.”

“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”

“What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!”

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

“Never say never, because limits,  fears, are often just an illusion.”

“Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.”

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”

“If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”
 “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”

“Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.”

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life... and that is why I succeed.”

“I realize I'm black, but id  to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.”

“If nobody will help you, do it alone! There is no 'I' in team, but there is 'I' in WIN!”

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”

“If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.”

“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”

“As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.”

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

“The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me...”

“Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.”



“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.”

“The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.”

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

Quotes by Sachin Tendulkar

When people throw stones at you, you turn them into milestones.

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

I am planning on an autobiography. People should know something about me.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

I don't know how they can figure out what's going on in my mind when sometimes I myself can't figure that out," Sachin said about journalists in October 2008.

It hasn't yet sunk in yet but I've definitely lost around 50 kilos," Sachin said after reaching his 100th international ton in March 2012.

Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero," Sachin said in 2008 as he struggles to distinguish between his standing ovations for entering the pitch and then for getting his half-century and century.

I really like Iceland. One of the nicest things about it is that I hardly ever had to reach for my credit card. There's practically nothing there to go shopping for," Sachin said in October 2013 as his idea of a holiday does not include souvenir-hunting.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones," said Sachin after surpassing Brian Lara's run tally in Tests

Life is about Creating Yourself!

1. I stitched shoes in childhood. -Abraham Lincoln
2.  I was a drop out and a keyboard player. -A.R.Rahman
3. I didn't complete my university. -Bill Gates
4. I worked at petrol pump. -Dhirubhai Ambani
5. I used to serve tea to support my football training. -Lionel Messi
6. I was the one who served in hotels. -Oberoi
7. I was a conductor. -Rajnikanth
8. I failed in class 10th. -Sachin Tendulkar
9. I slept on a bench and borrowed Rs.20 everyday from my friend to travel to filmcity. -Shahrukh Khan

Life isn't about finding yourself,

Life is about creating yourself !

Famous Failures

He wasn't able to speak until he was almost 4 years old, and his teachers said he'd never amount to much.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

After being cut from his high school basketball team, he went home, locked himself in his room, & cried.

MICHAEL JORDAN

She was demoted from her job as a news anchor because she wasn't fit for television.

OPRAH WINFREY

 At 30 years,he was left devastated & decompressed after being unceremoniously from the company he started.

STEVE JOBS

Rejected by Decca recording studios,who said "We don't like their studio" & "They have no future in show business."

THE BEATLES

He was fired from a newspaper for "lacking imagination" and "having no original ideas."

WALT DISNEY

Best and Greatest quotes on Women

A Very Happy International Women's Day to all the beautiful and gorgeous ladies all around the globe.

International Women's Day is celebrated across the world on 8th March every year since the early 1900s .

Here is a collection of best and greatest quotes on Women. Enjoy reading it, get inspired and if you loved reading it, don't forget to share it with your friends.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. -Henry Miller

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. -Joseph Conrad

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. -Amelia Earhart

Women kill me. They really do. I don’t mean I’m oversexed or anything like that — although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They’re always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle. -J.D. Salinger

And yet women — good women — frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. -Charles Bukowski

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. -John Lennon

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -Virginia Woolf

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. -Salvador Dalí

Be not ashamed women, … You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul. -Walt Whitman

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him. -Cher

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. -Oscar Wilde

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn’t be a staring contest. -Frank Sinatra

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor. -Coco Chanel

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. -Mary Wollstonecraft

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. -Dorothy Day

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. -Arthur Schopenhauer

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs. -Francois Truffaut

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? -Barbra Streisand

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you’re quite battle-scarred. -Hugh Grant

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Love’s a charity ward, you know. -Lawrence Durrell

Women are made to be loved, not understood. -Oscar Wilde

I don’t hate women , they just sometimes make me mad. -Eminem

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -Aristotle Onassis

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own “to do” list. -Michelle Obama

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. -Voltaire

If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days. -Robin Williams

There are only two types of women, goddesses and doormats. -Pablo Picasso

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. -Charlotte Brontë

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children’s and grandchildren’s fates, are decided. -Hillary Clinton

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. -Roseanne Barr

Albert Einstein Famous Quotes

• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
• "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
• "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
• "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
• "God is subtle but he is not malicious."
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
• "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
• "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
• "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
• "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
• "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
• "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
• "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
• "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
• "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
• "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
• "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
• "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
• "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
• "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
• "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
• "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
• "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
• "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
• "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
• "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
• "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
• "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
• "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
• "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
• "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”

“I love those who can smile in trouble...”

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death”

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“The knowledge of all things is possible”

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”

“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”

“Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”

“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”

“Time stays long enough for those who use it.”

“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”

“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. ”

“Life without love, is no life at all”

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”

“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”

“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”

“Water is the driving force in nature.”

“He who thinks little errs much…”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”

“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

“Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up”

“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”

“Average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.”

“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”

“Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”

“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”

“He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.”

“He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.”

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”

“My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”

“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”

“Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?”

“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”

“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”

“The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.”

“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”

“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”

“Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.”

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

“As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”

“The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.”

“Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man.”

“Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”

“Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.”

“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art”

“We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.”

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep”

“Simplicity is the best sophistication”

“He is a poor pupil who does not go beyond his master.”

“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”

“The human bird shall take his first flight,filling the words with amazement,all writings with his fame,and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence he sprang.”

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.”

“Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.”

“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”

“He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.”

“The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.”

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”

“Experience is never at fault; it is only your judgment that is in error, in promising itself such results from experience as are not caused by our experiments. For having given a beginning, what follows from it must necessarily be a natural development of such a beginning, unless it has been subject to a contrary influence, while, if it is affected by any contrary influence, the result which ought to follow from the aforesaid beginning, will be found to partake of this contrary influence in a greater or lesser degree in proportion as the said influence is more or less powerful than the aforesaid beginning.”

“The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.”

“The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams, than the imagination awake.”

“If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”

“It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.”

“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”

“He who can copy can do.”

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

“A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.”

“The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance”

“All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.”

“To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses – ribelli ad essi sensi – such as the existence of God or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention. And in fact it happens that whenever reason is wanting men to cry out against one another, which does not happen with certainties. For this reason we shall say that where the cry of controversy is heard, there is no true science, because the truth has one single end and when this is published, argument is destroyed for ever.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.”

“I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.”

“As a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep
so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying”

“And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.”

“Our life is made by the death of others”

“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery: the depth of failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”

“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life, if well spent, is long.”

“If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.”

“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”

“I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils”

“If there's no love, what then?”

“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”

“Blind ignorance does mislead us O! wretched morals..open your eyes!”

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”

“...the love of anything is the offspring of knowledge, love being more fervent in proportion as knowledge is more certain. And this certainty springs from a complete knowledge of all parts which united compose the whole of the thing which out to be loved.”

“If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.”

“Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.”

“How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death. Thus, the work of the painter is nobler than that of nature, its mistress.”

“The draperies that clothe figures must show that they are inhabited by these figures, enveloping them neatly to show the posture and motion of such figures, and avoiding the confusion of many folds, especially over the prominent parts, so that these may be evident”

“In time and with water, everything changes”

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
O! Wretched mortals, iopen your eyes!”

“Like a kingdom divided, which rushes to its doom, the mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.”

“a life without love, is no life at all”

“Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.”

“Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene, you can see there resemblances to a number of landscapes, adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, great plains, valleys and hills, in various ways. Also you can see various battles, and lively postures of strange figures, expressions on faces, costumes and an infinite number of things, which you can reduce to good integrated form. This happens on such walls and varicoloured stones, (which act) like the sound of bells, in whose peeling you can find every name and word that you can imagine.Do not despise my opinion, when I remind you that it should not hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or the ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas. The mind of the painter is stimulated to new discoveries, the composition of battles of animals and men, various compositions of landscapes and monstrous things, such as devils and similar things, which may bring you honor, because by indistinct things the mind is stimulated to new inventions.”

“You will never fail unless you don't have an aim.”

Walt Disney Quotes on Disneyland

Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance.

Disneyland is a show.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.

I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.

It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement - I knew when I was a kid.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

To all that come to this happy place: welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

We did it (Disneyland), in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.

Walt Disney Famous Quotes

A man should never neglect his family for business.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Disneyland is a show.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Fantasy, if it's really convincing can't become dated for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

I believe in being an innovator.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

Laughter is America's most important export.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

You can dream it, you can do it.

You can't just let nature run wild.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Vincent van Gogh Famous Art Quotes

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.

I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

I certainly hope to sell in the course of time, but I think I shall be able to influence it most effectively by working steadily on, and that at the present moment making desperate efforts to force the work I am doing now upon the public would be pretty useless.

I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies; if the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that. But have I set my heart on my work being a success? A thousand times no. I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

Pablo Picasso Famous Art Quotes

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous.

Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

If there is something to steal, I steal it!.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding.

People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Mickey Mouse Quotes

Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.

He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.

We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin- a little fellow trying to do the best he could.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

Warren Buffett Quotes

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Our favorite holding period is forever.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. 

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Value is what you get.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Walt Disney Quotes on Animation

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals."

 Animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."

Cartoon animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions which a few short years ago would have seemed impossible to secure with a cartoon character. Some of the action produced in the finished cartoon of today is more graceful than anything possible for a human to do.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. Every spoken word, whether uttered by a living person or by a cartoon character, has its facial grimace, emphasizing the meaning.

To think six years ahead - even two or three - in this business of making animated cartoon features, it takes calculated risk and much more than blind faith in the future of theatrical motion pictures. I see motion pictures as a family-founded institution closely related to the life and labor of millions of people.Entertainment such as our business provides has become a necessity, not a luxury. . . it is the part which offers us the greatest reassurance about the future in the animation field.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.