Diego Arredondo > Diego's Quotes

“Oh! Almighty and Everlasting God, Creator of Heaven, Earth and the Universe: Help me to be, to think, to act what is right, because it is right; make me truthful, honest and honorable in all things; make me intellectually honest for the sake of right and honor and without thought of reward to me. Give me the ability to be charitable, forgiving and patient with my fellowmen—help me to understand their motives and their shortcomings—even as Thou understandest mine! Amen, Amen, Amen. Say”
― David McCullough, Truman

“LOS ARTISTAS

Para mi los artistas son gente que estimula,
que miran para arriba y se inspiran en la luna

Son gente que sabe de cultura
que saben encontrar el destello en su locura.

Se apasionan con lo suyo, yo solo flujo
En mis auriculares escucho, DJ Revolution
de a poco fluyo, las cosas ya las intuyo,
me concentro en lo cultural, no me meto en chanchullos, tuyos

Mejor metete por tus yuyos
estoy metido, escondido entre artistas, disparan cartuchos
pero verbales, del corazón les sale
apagan las luces, prenden lapicera, comienzan rituales... sabes?

Tengo, muestro claves, encontré la llave a la puerta de un mundo de mil portales
con la música se sabe, el mundo de lo abstracto
es difícil, pero a veces con mis dedos lo palpo y lo siento

Esa energía, la quiero de vuelta, la quiero todos los días... es toda mia y todavia!
Hay mas para investigar, nutrite de la música sentila de verdad!!”
― Replik

“*COMIENZA A HACER ALGO*
Lo que tu _haces_ es lo que importa, no lo que piensas, dices o planificas. ¿Piensas que tienes una idea valiosa? Entonces ve e intenta venderla y ve cuánto obtienes por ella. _No mucho_ es la respuesta más probable. Hasta que comiences a hacer algo, tu idea es simplemente eso, solo una idea. I todo el mundo tiene una de esas. Las ideas son baratas y de esas hay bastantes. La idea es solo una parte tan pequeña del negocio que es casi despreciable. La gran pregunta es qué tan bien sabes ejecutar.”
― Jason Fried, Rework

“Did you hear them, did you hear these monsters talking about monsters? Oh God, the way they jabber about people and their own children and themselves and the way they talk about their husbands and the way they talk about war, dammit, I stand here and I can't believe it!”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If you believe you are beyond harm, will you go inside? Will you enter this palace so prominent in blood and glory, follow your face through the web-spanned dark, toward the exquisite chiming of the clavier? The alarms cannot see us. The wet policeman lurking in the doorway cannot see us. Come …”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“sight of Clarice Starling running through the falling leaves on the forest path was well established now in the memory palace of his mind. It is a source of pleasure”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“NO VAYAS ESPERANDO QUE TODO SALGA A LA PERFECCION
Que el pepino es acido, hechalo a la basura! Hay espinas sobre el camino, entonces mantente lejos! Ya es suficiente.
¿Porque reflexionar la existencia de la molestia? Esa manera de pensar te hará motivo de burla del verdadedo estudiante de la Naturaleza, asi como un carpintero o un zapatero se hechara a reir si apuntas hacia el aserrin y los pedazitos de cuero sobre sus talleres. Aunque aquellos artezanos tienen basureros para los desechos., la Naturaleza no tiene necesidad de ellos”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.”
― Frederick Bastiat

“Cuando usamos el bolígrafo sobre el papel no solo encendemos la luz, también aumentamos la temperatura. Escribir a mano nos ayuda a pensar y sentir al mismo tiempo”
― Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
― Bill Gates

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
― Bill Gates

“A man curses because he doesn't have the words to say what's on his mind.”
― Malcolm X

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it

Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for

Today I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did

I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyes

My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold

I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine

Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow

My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you

Your effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
and you have made radiant
for me
the earth and sky

My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer”
― Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi

“..el instinto poético es impotente por si solo (...) El estudio paciente (...) y la meditación profunda (...) son quienes desenvuelven los gérmenes del ingenio y llevan por un camino mas largo, es cierto, pero mas seguro, a las eminencias en que la mente encuentra sin esfuerzo la fórmula genuina y la imagen sensible de su pensamiento.”
― Gabriel René Moreno, Elementos De Literatura Preceptiva

“la palabra hablada y la palabra escrita, como todo lo que produce el ingenio humano, consiste en algo que se puede hacer bien o se puede hacer mal, y para eso está el arte de hacerlas bien”
― Gabriel René Moreno

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
― Terry Pratchett

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
― Jack London

“After trying out a number of ways to reduce inequalities and failing, I was gradually forced to conclude that the decisive factors were the people, their natural abilities, education and training. Knowledge and the possession of technology were vital for the creation of wealth.”
― Lee Kuan Yew, The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

“Elodin pointed down the street. "What color is that boy's shirt?"

"Blue."

"What do you mean by blue? Describe it."

I struggled for a moment, failed. "So blue is a name?"

"It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself."

My head was swimming by this point. "I still don't understand."

He laid a hand on my shoulder. "Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating." He lifted his hands high above his head as if stretching for the sky. "But there are other ways to understanding!" he shouted, laughing like a child. He threw both arms to the cloudless arch of sky above us, still laughing. "Look!" he shouted tilting his head back. "Blue! Blue! Blue!”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.” And”
― Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr. Einstein