Davis Dna Designs77 quotes
Below is a collection of quotes documented from various individuals and from a range of different media.
I have acquired a few of these quotes more recently but most are from back in the day when I was obsessed with collecting lines.
A-F
“Impossible is nothing.”
– ADIDAS SLOGAN
“I know when I’ve reached the end of a level, when I’m at the beginning of the next.”
– AKEEL NOORDALLY
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– ALBERT EINSTEIN
“Religion without science is lame. Science without religion is blind.”
– ALBERT EINSTEIN
“Experience teaches the teachable.”
– ALDOUS HUXLEY
“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
– ARISTOTLE
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
– ARISTOTLE
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
– ARISTOTLE
“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.”
– AUDREY HEPBURN
“Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance – and so are everybody else’s.”
– BAZ LUHRMANN / EVERYBODY’S FREE
“Be carefully who’s advise you buy, but be patent with those who supply it.”
– BAZ LUHRMANN / EVERYBODY’S FREE
“Your best idea might be the one people laugh at.”
– BERNADETTE JIWA
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
– BRUCE LEE
“If you always put limits on yourself and what you can do, physical or anything, you might as well be dead. It will spread over into your work, your morality, your entire being. There are no limits, only plateaux. But you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.”
– BRUCE LEE
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
– CHARLIE CHAPLIN
“Don’t listen to anyone, listen to everyone.”
– CHRIS GUILLEBEAU
“If technique is put before expression the equation will be lost.”
– CHRISTIAN GULINO
“Those who fail to establish independent goals for themselves become the ‘me too’s’ of the world.”
– DALE CARNEGIE
“Nothing could be easier then failing to communicate.”
– DALE CARNEGIE
“You will make mistakes. We all do. Learn from them, and move on.”
– DAVID AIREY
“I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.”
– DOUGLAS ADAMS
“The things you own end up owning you.”
– FIGHT CLUB / BRAD PITT as TYLER DURDEN
“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”
– FIGHT CLUB / BRAD PITT as TYLER DURDEN
G-M
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
– HENRY FORD
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– HENRY FORD
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
– HENRY FORD
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
– HENRY FORD
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
– HENRY FORD
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”
– HENRY FORD
“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”
– HENRY FORD
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
– HENRY FORD
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
– HENRY FORD
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”
– HENRY FORD
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
– HENRY FORD
“The power of dreams.”
– HONDA SLOGAN
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”
– INDIRA GANDHI
“There are two types of thieves in this world. The ones that do it to in rich their lives and the ones that do it to define their lives.”
– THE ITALIAN JOB / DONALD SUTHERLAND as JOHN BRIDGER
“Play to your strengths; be nice to people, and in time you’ll come out on top.”
- JESSICA HISCHE
“Life is what happens to you, whilst you’re busy making over plans.”
– JOHN LENNON
“Defeat is only momentary.”
– KING KONG / JACK BLACK as CARL DENHAM
“Your passion is what sets you apart from everyone else.”
– LEA WOODWARD
“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
– MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH
“If you believe in your product or have a great idea why not just go for it?”
- MARK BLOOM
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– MARK TWAIN
“I have a dream…”
– MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
– MUHAMMAD ALI
N-S
“If you want to break the rules you need to learn them first.”
– NUBBY TWIGLET
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
– PABLO PICASSO
“No struggle, no progress.”
– RICHARD DAVIS
“The most successful people make the most mistakes.”
– RICHARD DAVIS
“In the game called life, and times are hard, small minds blame others, average minds blame society, great minds change the play… What’s your mind?”
– RICHARD DAVIS
“Who dares wins.”
– SAS MOTTO
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
– THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION / TIM ROBBINS as ANDY
“You must unlearn what you have learnt.”
– STAR WARS / YODA
“Try not, do. Or do not. There is no try.”
– STAR WARS / YODA
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– STEVE JOBS
“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
– STEVE JOBS
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
– STEVE JOBS
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
– STEVE JOBS
“An idea, while essential, is nothing more then a vague notion. It has no detail, no depth, and no dimension. No, you need more then just an idea to start writing a screenplay.”
– SYD FIELD
“The longest journey begins with the first step.”
– SYD FIELD
“The whole is nothing but a sum of its parts.”
– SYD FIELD
“Trust the process, it’s larger then you are.”
– SYD FIELD
“If it works use it, if it doesn’t, don’t.”
– SYD FIELD
“Now is the time to sharpen your skills and prefect your craft. The future is now.”
– SYD FIELD
“The hardest thing about writing is knowing what to write.”
– SYD FIELD
“If you don’t know your story, then who does?”
– SYD FIELD
“If your character walks out of the bank, that’s one story. If he runs out of the bank, that’s another story.”
– SYD FIELD
“No two leaves, no two flowers, no two people are ever the same.”
– SYD FIELD
“Jean Renoir once told me that a good teacher is someone who ‘shows people the connection between things.”
– SYD FIELD
T-Z
“Build it, and they will come. Make it great, and they will come in there thousands. Make it magnificent, and they will come in there millions.”
– UNKNOWN
“If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always gotten.”
– UNKNOWN
“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
– WALT DISNEY
“You are who you associate with.”
– WILL SMITH
“I learnt a long time ago, that the smartest dude wins.”
– WILL SMITH
“Don’t wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.”
– 24 / KIEFER SUTHERLAND as JACK BAUER