Ellen Angus > Ellen's Quotes

“Clear your stuff. Clear your mind.”
― Eric M. Riddle, Stuffology 101: Get Your Mind Out of the Clutter

“Avoid hyper-scheduling yourself so you have free time to do something creative or perhaps to do nothing at all.”
― Melissa Steginus, Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters

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

“Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.”
― L. Frank Baum

“Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.”
― henry louis gates

“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand. In the impetuous youth of humanity, we can make grave errors that can stunt our growth for a long time. This we will do if we say we have the answers now, so young and ignorant as we are. If we suppress all discussion, all criticism, proclaiming “This is the answer, my friends; man is saved!” we will doom humanity for a long time to the chains of authority, confined to the limits of our present imagination. It has been done so many times before.
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.”
― Richard P. Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character

“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”
― Albert Einstein

“Everything is nothing, with a twist.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

“Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.”
― Dennis Lehane