Quote Clusters Of The Dead..
Riddhi of “The Bohemian Beat” radio show on 99.9 Bay FM in Byron Bay, asked me to scout for regional poets, to come and record some poetry of mine and perhaps some- pieces of dead poets. As to be less influenced, I tend not to read the works of others. Seeking to learn directly from nature and surrounds rather than human perspectives.
But, envisioned a fun twist. Mixing short quotes of past icons of science, philosophy, politic and poetry which is a vein of her show, into Quote Clusters Of The Dead..
ENJOY:
1.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Winston Churchill, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, René Descartes, Charles Darwin.
2.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Confucius , Maya Angelou, Robin Williams, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela.
3.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Abraham Lincoln, George Owell, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, William Blake.
4.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Orson Welles , Jane Austen, Groucho Marx, Lord Byron, Leonardo da Vinci .
5.
If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments.
Billie Holiday, Confucius, Winston Churchill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nikola Tesla.
6.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Winston Churchill, Maya Angelou.
7.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality… for one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Nikola Tesla, Adam Smith, René Descartes, David Bowie.
8.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
René Descartes, Kurt Cobain, Walt Whitman, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf.
9.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Oscar Wilde, Amelia Earhart, William Blake, Steve Jobs, Orson Welles.
10.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
I know why the caged bird sings.
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Martin Luther King Jr., George Gordon Byron, Maya Angelou, Nikola Tesla, Alfred Lord Tennyson.
11.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Be curious, not judgmental.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Nelson Mandela, Walt Whitman, Mother Teresa, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln.
12.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein, Billie Holiday, Charles Darwin, Nikola Tesla.
13.
The sun is gone, but I have a light.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever..
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Kurt Cobain, George Orwell, Karl Marx, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Amelia Earhart.
14.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
Big Brother is watching you.
Queen Victoria, George Gordon Byron, Marilyn Monroe, David Bowie, George Orwell.
15
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria, Amelia Earhart, Confucius, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
16.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
I am a part of all that I have met.
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Helen Keller, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake, Nikola Tesla.
BONUS:
I don’t care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don’t have any of their own.
Nikola Tesla
They’re not scared of you. They’re scared of what you represent to ’em.
Dead charachter from movie EASY RIDER.
George Hanson, spoken by Jack Nicholson..
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
Nikola Tesla
I mean, it’s real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don’t ever tell anybody that they’re not free, ’cause then they’re gonna get real busy killin’ and maimin’ to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they’re gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ’em.
(Billy says: Well, it don’t make ’em runnin’ scared.)
No, it makes ’em dangerous.
Dead charachter from movie EASY RIDER.
George Hanson, spoken by Jack Nicholson..