Fertile Quotes - Page 3

• Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.

  Jim James

  New York, Moving, Creativity

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• Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.

  Orson Scott Card

  Daughter, Home, Tunnels

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.235, Macmillan

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• The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder ― its DNA ― Xerox it, and embed it in the fertile line of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, Dna, Growth

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1992.

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• A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

  Andrew Bird

  Sight, Cities, Creative

  "Andrew Bird Talks ‘Break It Yourself,’ And His Obsession With Maps". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Discovery, Views, Copernicus

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• Tan cerca a lo largo de la corriente de la vida están las fuentes de la inocencia y la juventud que hacen fértil su margen arenoso; y el voyageur hará bien en reponer sus vasijas a menudo en estas fuentes incontaminadas.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Innocence, Youth

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.580, Simon and Schuster

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• Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both your subconscious mind and your pre-conscious mind to use your dreams as a way to show you insights, solutions and new creative ideas.

  Genevieve

  Dream, Fall, Blessing

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• There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

  Werner Herzog

  Insecurity, Noir, Financial

  "Courting Disaster: Werner Herzog". Interview with Darrell Hartman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2009.

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• All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

  Alan Lightman

  Roots, Fiction, Work Family

  "Reviewing Mr g: Physicist-turned-novelist Alan Lightman meets God at the intersection of science and religion". Interview with Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. February 12, 2012.

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• I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.

  Donald Miller

  Dog, Writing, Sitting

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• The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the environment can the livelihoods of those most dependent on it be sustained. We cannot allow economic and environmental concerns to be played off against each other.

  Petra Kelly

  Running, Rivers, Environmental

  Petra Karin Kelly (1994). "¡Pensar en verde!: ensayos sobre ecologismo, feminismo y no violencia", Parallax Pr

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• La humildad es un terreno fértil donde crece la espiritualidad y produce el fruto de la inspiración para saber qué hacer. Da acceso al poder divino para realizar lo que debe hacerse. Un individuo motivado por un deseo de alabanza o reconocimiento no calificará para ser enseñado por el Espíritu. Un individuo que es arrogante o que deja que sus emociones influyan en sus decisiones no será guiado poderosamente por el Espíritu.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspiration, Humility, Giving

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• We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.

  Pema Chodron

  Beautiful, Interesting, Together

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

  Michael Bassey

  Sky, Air, Attention

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• Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

  Teresa de Ávila

  Men, Mind, May

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1957). “The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

  George Matthew Adams

  Men, Imagination, Brain

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.28, Ravenio Books

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• Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

  Robert Bly

  Library, Persons

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• There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Rivers, Ozone

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• Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Beautiful, Integrity, Matter

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• El hip-hop y el R&B son bases de colaboración especialmente fértiles. Siempre se hacen buenos discos y buena música.

  John Legend

  Hip Hop, Caderas, Colaboración

  "John Legend: 'Pensé que sería divertido hacerme una foto en el baño de la Casa Blanca'". Entrevista con Denise Cheong y Charlene Fang, travel.cnn.com. 9 de marzo de 2011.

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• To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mind, Mathematics, Invention

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• The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.

  Elihu Thomson

  Mother, Art, Memories

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• Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Roots, Religion, Soil

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• Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Garden, Thinking, Evil

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour”, Simon and Schuster

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• Cuando llegaste por primera vez, me acariciaste e hiciste mucho de mí; me dabas agua con bayas en ella; y me enseñaste cómo nombrar la luz más grande, y cómo la menos, que arden de día y de noche; y entonces te amé y te mostré todas las cualidades de la isla, los manantiales frescos, los pozos de salmuera, el lugar estéril y fértil.

  William Shakespeare

  Primavera, Noche, Luz

  William Shakespeare (1998). "Cuatro obras tardías", p.357, Ediciones Wordsworth.

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