I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention—invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie Genius, Innovation, Inspirational, Laziness, Positive You May Also Like Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. By Malcolm S. Forbes Confidence, Positive, Potential, Wise It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. By PHILIP ADAMS Confidence, Goals, Inspirational, Positive, Risk taking It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. By C. S. Lewis Dream, Empowering, Goals, Inspirational Only people who do things get criticized. By Anonymus Action, Empowering, Inspirational, Motivational, Short Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. By JEAN SIBELIUS Criticism, Funny, Positive, Uplifting Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. By CHRISTOPHER QUILL Empowering, Genius, Life, Strong You May Also Like from Agatha Christie Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. By Agatha Christie Addiction, Habits One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. By Agatha Christie Funn I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing. By Agatha Christie Depression, Life, Positive, Uplifting Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her. By Agatha Christie Love, Relationship, Romantic
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. By Malcolm S. Forbes Confidence, Positive, Potential, Wise
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. By PHILIP ADAMS Confidence, Goals, Inspirational, Positive, Risk taking
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. By C. S. Lewis Dream, Empowering, Goals, Inspirational
Only people who do things get criticized. By Anonymus Action, Empowering, Inspirational, Motivational, Short
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. By JEAN SIBELIUS Criticism, Funny, Positive, Uplifting
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. By CHRISTOPHER QUILL Empowering, Genius, Life, Strong
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. By Agatha Christie Addiction, Habits
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. By Agatha Christie Funn
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing. By Agatha Christie Depression, Life, Positive, Uplifting
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her. By Agatha Christie Love, Relationship, Romantic
