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Sunday, May 18, 2008

George Walton Lucas, Jr



George Walton Lucas, Jr., is an American film director, producer and screenwriter famous for his epic "Star Wars" saga.

Here are his inspiring quotes:
  • "You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead."
  • "Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."
  • "You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."
  • "Either do, or do not, there is no try."
  • “In my experience, there is no such thing as luck.”

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Vincent Van Gogh's famous quotes


Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist best known for his work Starry Night. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces.


Here are some of his famous quotes:


  • "Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."

  • "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

  • "If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

  • "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

  • "One must work and dare if one really wants to live."

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Ralph Waldo Emerson






Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet and one of the greatest orators of his time.





Here are his quotes:

  • "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
  • "The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
  • "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
  • "As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."
  • "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."