Will Durant Quotes

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

It will not always be summer; build barns.

Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to plan for in a sense. I do not think Dr. Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on 'AI,' and his level of preparation was extraordinary. He told me there was a time at the beginning when he was a bit more spontaneous and went over budget, and it absolutely wrecked his head. When you look at the power and assuredness of his movies, it makes sense that he works out so much in advance.

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

The roadwork is just rehearsal for that DVD you're going to film a year later.

It's good tying the sack before it be full.

These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.

Before you make the key, study the lock.