Carpe Quotes - Page 6

• You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

  Alan Cumming

  Carpe Diem, Should Have, Should

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• Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Carpe Diem, Thinking, Looks

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• There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Carpe Diem, Dare, Coldness

  "The Teaching of Reverence for Life".

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• Nothing is worth more than this day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bad Day, Carpe Diem, Garden

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxim 789, 1833.

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• The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

  W. W. Dumas

  Art, Carpe Diem, Cities

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• Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

  Evan Esar

  Zoos, Carpe Diem, Study

  "Esar's Comic Dictionary". Book by Evan Esar, 1943.

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• My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view.

  John Hendricks

  Attitude, Philosophy, Carpe Diem

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• Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

  Norman Podhoretz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Character, Carpe Diem

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• I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

  Andrew McMahon

  Life, Beautiful, Carpe Diem

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• Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.

  Keter Betts

  Carpe Diem, World, Wells

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• Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

  John Silber

  Carpe Diem, Survival, Passionate

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• A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

  Anna Nalick

  Teacher, Loneliness, Math

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• I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Ignorance, Carpe Diem

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• Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

  Martin Luther

  School, Carpe Diem, Skills

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• Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.

  James Clavell

  Beautiful, Karma, Blessed

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• Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fun

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.606, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

  Drew Barrymore

  Adventure, Carpe Diem, Soul

  "My Date With Drew" by Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. August 2, 2005.

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• Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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• These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

  Abigail Adams

  Hero, Heart, Character

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• The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

  Arne Duncan

  Art, Believe, Carpe Diem

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• Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Graduation, Encouraging, Dream

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• The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

  Barbara Jordan

  Art, Carpe Diem, Differences

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• How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

  Alec Baldwin

  Children, Carpe Diem, Humanity

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• It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

  Andrea Barrett

  Writing, Carpe Diem, People

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