“All profoundly original art looks ugly at first”
Clement Greenberg
“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”
Warren G. Bennis
“The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure”
Gregory Nunn
“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”
Andre Maurois
“We really have to make profound changes. I'm really looking forward to working hard and diligently . . . To make sure we can change our ways and fulfill our responsibility to future generations.”
Elizabeth Weir
“[Honors: At his funeral, Charlie Chaplin read Dreiser's poem,] The Road I Came. ... American writing before and after his time differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin. He was a man of large originality, of profound feeling and of unshakable courage. All of us who write are better off because he lived, worked and hoped.”
Theodore Dreiser
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao Tzu
