John Knierim

Science seeks to find truth in the natural world,

Art seeks to find truth in the emotional world.

“The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.

All the best ideas come out of the process

“People are always looking for happiness at some future time and in some new thing, or some new set of circumstances, in possession of which they some day expect to find themselves. But the fact is, if happiness is not found now, where we are, and as we are, there is little chance of it ever being found. There is a great deal more happiness around

"Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but by what one owns but we have discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning and that piling up material goods cannot fulfill the emptiness of lives that have no confidence or purpose!"- Jimmy Carter

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger to

“You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency.

Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.”

“So many advantages come from being willing to look like an idiot in the short term.

You stay silent in an important meeting, afraid to voice your critical thoughts and watch the project fail. You don't write the novel because people might not read it. You don't admit you were wrong and repeatedly make the same mistake. You don't go to the gym becau

“Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.”

— Jeremy Goldberg

'A healthy person has a thousand wishes, a sick person has but one.' - An Indian proverb