Jill Wang > Jill's Quotes

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“Being crazy isn't enough.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants and of the terrible suffering of beautiful princesses, it holds its head up and its eyes open; but if the mother begins to speak of happiness and sunshine, the little one closes its eyes and falls asleep with its head against her breast. . . . I am a child like that, too. Others may like stories of flowers and sunshine; but I choose the dark nights and sad destinies.”
― Selma Lagerlöf, Gösta Berling's Saga

“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“A vision without execution is an hallucination.”
― Jeffrey E. Garten, The Mind Of The CEO: The World's Business Leaders Talk About Leadership, Responsibility The Future Of The Corporation, And What Keeps Them Up At Night

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”
― The Secret Life of Walter Mitty