Showing posts with label Melville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melville. Show all posts

Monday, May 7, 2012

Quitting, Disorder, Play

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
~ Lance Armstrong

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
~ Herman Melville

It is a happy talent to know how to play.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher, poet, essayist

Monday, October 4, 2010

Blessed, Originality, Cynics

Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
~ Advice

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
~ Herman Melville

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a
wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
~ U.S. Andersen