David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility.”
Sermon 19:2 on the New Testament http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/160319.htm <br class="br">Sermons <br class="br">Context: You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.
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Patrick Swift (1927–1983) British artist
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Context: What trace of the creature subsists in the work. It is a way of staying alone, passing the time subjected to the object — silent, still. Walk with humility in the landscape. To be some natural thing — an ancient tree — no thinking — not to think is central to the activity.
“Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: Incantation
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Day 19: Cultivating Community
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (2002)
Variant: Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for?
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
The Architecture of Theories (1891)
Context: Of the fifty or hundred systems of philosophy that have been advanced at different times of the world's history, perhaps the larger number have been, not so much results of historical evolution, as happy thoughts which have accidently occurred to their authors. An idea which has been found interesting and fruitful has been adopted, developed, and forced to yield explanations of all sorts of phenomena. … The remaining systems of philosophy have been of the nature of reforms, sometimes amounting to radical revolutions, suggested by certain difficulties which have been found to beset systems previouslv in vogue; and such ought certainly to be in large part the motive of any new theory. … When a man is about to build a house, what a power of thinking he has to do, before he can safely break ground! With what pains he has to excogitate the precise wants that are to be supplied. What a study to ascertain the most available and suitable materials, to determine the mode of construction to which those materials are best adapted, and to answer a hundred such questions! Now without riding the metaphor too far, I think we may safely say that the studies preliminary to the construction of a great theory should be at least as deliberate and thorough as those that are preliminary to the building of a dwelling-house.
“You should never wish for wishful thinking.”
Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Laurence Olivier (1907–1989) British actor, director and producer
As quoted in Laurence Olivier (1979) by Foster Hirsch, p. 166
Context: If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life — it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.
Tomas Kalnoky (1980) American musician
"That'll Be The Day" from "Everything Goes Numb" (2003) http://risc.perix.co.uk/lyrics/sm/egn/02/