Your Daily Insight as told by Charles Kettering

We fully acknoweldge the anachronistic "his" and "he" and "him"-ness of this quote, but let's pretend that Mr. Kettering was applying this to both sexes (because we most certainly are):

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college he has to take three or four years examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. If he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Your Daily Insight as told by Erica Jong

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Your Daily Insight as told by Golda Meir

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it, regardless of the possible outcome.

Your Daily Insight as told by Roberto Bolaño

Every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another--and we don't realize that's a lie.

Your Daily Insight as told by Andy Warhol

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Your Daily Insight as told by Tennessee Williams

The future is called 'perhaps'--which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Your Daily Insight as told by Jack Kerouac

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Your Daily Insight as told by Henry Miller

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. ...We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up to discover what is already there.

Your Daily Insight as told by Lily Tomlin

I always knew I wanted to become somebody when I grew up. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

Your Daily Insight as told by Antoine De Saint Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.