- Books aren’t written – they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.
- Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
- It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
- The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature–all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn’t care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal’s behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.
- Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
- Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.
- Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
- We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
- Life is wonderful. It’s a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn’t really anything else.
- Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.
10 inspirational michael crichton quotes on success
