Quotes - Blin (blinvarfi) (Tirana, Albania) Showing 1-30 of 59

#1

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”
― Joseph Eastwood

tags: inspirational, writing

#2

“Even a wasted life stands as an important example and therefore can never be useless.”
― Mark Wallace, The Quarry and The Lot

tags: usefulness

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#3

“Sanity is overrated.”
― Cynthia Hand, Boundless

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#4

“Success is rarely determined by the quality of your ideas. But it is frequently determined by the quality of your execution.”
― Jeff Atwood, Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code

11 likes

#5

“There was a small, quiet moment, the kind you just have time to notice, which makes you feel sad for no good reason.”
― Nick Harkaway

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#6

“Some things belong only to the people who lived them.”
― Courtney Angela Brkic, The First Rule of Swimming

11 likes

#7

“Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

4 likes

#8

“Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?”
― Wendy Doniger

tags: animals, bestiality

4 likes

#9

“The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

tags: cancer, positive-thinking

28 likes

#10

“The rain believes the earth exists just to give it something to fall against.”
― Nick Lantz

tags: nature-s-beauty

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#11

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

130280 likes

#12

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69755 likes

#13

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43920 likes

#14

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

6240 likes

#15

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

6445 likes

#16

“Everything popular is wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

587 likes

#17

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

2604 likes

#18

“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”
― Oscar Wilde

372 likes

#19

“Because a heart that hurts, is a heart that works.”
― Placebo

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#20

“It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.”
― John McClenahan

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#22

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

6968 likes

#23

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor, science

11414 likes

#24

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: science

4209 likes

#25

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems

2914 likes

#26

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

tags: fear, life, science, understanding

2871 likes

#27

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

tags: magic, science, technology, wonder

1769 likes

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