disappointments, greatness, get busy

Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.
~ Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
~ Colleen Wainwright

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I
can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Atheist, Fire, Intelligence

I'm still an atheist, thank God.
~ Luis Bunuel

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and
he's warm for the rest of his life.
~ Terry Pratchett

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
~ Charles Darwin

Courage, Fishing, Sources

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the judgment that something
is more important than our fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted
line. He caught every other fish.
~ Steven Wright

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for
his facts.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan