Ryan Ruppel > Ryan's Quotes

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
― Terence McKenna

“A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.”
― Tom Wilson

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
― Mark Twain

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”
― Leonard Cohen

“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright, Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“If it sells, it's art.”
― Frank Lloyd

“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. ”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines — so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“Space is the breath of art.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright