Bad Ass Quotes - Page 6

• Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Badass, Sculpture, Architecture

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• All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Sunset, Fire

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• Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, p. 121, 2000.

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• When anger rises, think of the consequences.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Yoga

  "The Sacred Edict: Containing Sixteen Maxims of the Emperor Kang-He". Book by Yu-p'u Wang (p. 298), 1817.

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• The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Women, Writing

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• What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

  Wayne Dyer

  Change, Spiritual, Buddhist

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Sports, Military

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• By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

  Warren Ellis

  Suicide, Optimistic, World

  "Transmetropolitan". Comic book series by Warren Ellis, 1997–2002.

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• There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Hunting, Long

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Typewriters, Scary

  "Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Photos from Hemingway's Childhood" by James Joiner, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Death, Rip

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Goodbye, Farewell, Eye

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• I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Mean, Making A Living

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• We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Life is half spent before we know what it is.

  George Herbert

  Life, Reality, Half

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177

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• Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Struggle, Fighting

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

  Philip Johnson

  Funny, Art, Badass

  New York Times 27 Dec. 1964, p. 9E

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• All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

  Philip Johnson

  Badass, Space, Design

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• Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Money, Business, Creativity

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• While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Determination, Done

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  The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Change, Lying

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

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• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life Is Good, Expression, Focus

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happiness, Fear, Creativity

  Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.75, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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