Best 232 quotes of Stewart Stafford on MyQuotes

It is a combination of man’s mental acuity and self-importance to try and attach any meaning to life. Why can’t we just be an extremely fortunate life form randomly hurtling through space on an ideally-positioned rock? If life has any meaning, it is the basic biological one of passing on our genes to the next generation before we die.

It is often asked why the greatest performers are so timid in private. Confident people get attention naturally. Shy people must do something extraordinary or outrageous to have similar recognition.

It is often said that Freddie Mercury is "one of the best" showmen in history. To me, he is THE best. Why? Two reasons - he wrote what is generally-considered the greatest song of all-time (Bohemian Rhapsody) AND gave the greatest live performance ever (Live Aid). To do one of those things is extremely difficult, to do both is a genius-level achievement.

It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.

I used to be scared of death until I found out it's now called 'end of life.' Phew, that was close!

January is the calendar's ingrown hair.

Lee Harvey Oswald fired the starting gun of America's nightmare years. This insignificant man's bullets didn't just echo through Dealey Plaza in 1963. The shockwaves from them arguably fuelled the turbulent events of the rest of the 1960s and only dissipated with Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War.

Lies are a vacation from the self.

Life doesn't end, you just run out of road.

Life is an endless trial and death its certain verdict, but there are many recesses to enjoy before then.

Loyalty comes before price or prize. If not, the ties that bind become constricting garrottes as creeping spinal flesh awaits a dagger's thrust.

Maintain an active mind: alert to the possibilities and mischievous in your pursuit of them.

Never listen to destructive criticism - it's only meant to silence you.

Man's Utopian dreams get circumvented through compromise and disappointment into a tolerable reality.

Micro-managing creativity kills it. To encourage creative brilliance, foster an atmosphere where it can thrive and then step out of the way and let it happen.

Moral stains are wiped clean with the passing of the transgressor. They do not pass down to their descendants or others of the same faith or ethnicity through osmosis. Those using the very notion of inherited guilt as a stick to beat others with are revealing more about their problematic natures than anyone bearing their accusations.

Most people think of Stephen King as a horror author, but his best work usually comes with a side order of nostalgic Americana.

Multitasking is overrated - I'd rather do one thing well than many things badly. Quality supersedes quantity every time.

Nature, with its paradoxical twin firmaments of breathtaking beauty and extreme cruelty, never explains itself and cares even less for our admiration and acceptance.

Never become an adult! They're stressed-out, miserable creatures.

Never enter the home of another with dust on your shoes and selfish expectations in your heart.

Never make crucial decisions when angry. The rage that clouds judgement fades and only its consequences linger thereafter.

Never think that hatred and prejudice are the exclusive problems of any particular group in society or the world. When we become inured to hate's virulence, it has time to thrive, spread and reach everyone eventually. So take no comfort from the fact that others are suffering today and not you. The mirror of empathy makes us witnesses our own future torment.

Never think that hatred and prejudice are the exclusive problems of any particular group in society or the world. When we become inured to hate's virulence, it has time to thrive, spread and reach everyone eventually. So take no comfort from the fact that others are suffering today and not you. The mirror of empathy makes us witnesses to our own future torment.

No one gets out of this world alive...except astronauts.

No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it.

Of all the social problems I have witnessed in the United States, and there are many, I have yet to see one that couldn't be solved or ameliorated by creating access to affordable or free education.

One man's generalisation is another man's succinct yet profound summation of a complex theory or argument.

Open your eyes, breathe in the fresh dawn air and, with it, all the possibilities this new day may bring.

Organised religion is a contradiction in terms - it's the fallible meeting the infallible. Any earthly, bureaucratic representation of a higher power will prove to be inherently problematic.

People experience art as a transformative or even transcendent experience when it really only reflects back and awakens parts of them that are already there.

People say they don’t believe in luck: luck is the reason the dinosaurs got wiped out and why human beings became the new dominant species on this planet.

People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.

People will always surprise you if you give them a chance.

People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.

People will hunt obsessively for months or even years to find the right home to live in. When it comes to love though, they expect their future soulmate to appear out of thin air as they enter the next bar or club they go to.

Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the human condition is often our greatest area of excellence and discovery.

Planet Earth - the universe's verdant tightrope of consciousness for lonely homo sapiens to traverse.

Poetry is the articulation of emotion through language.

Political sensitivity is as rare as footprints on quicksand.

Politics - a lucrative game for the ludicrous.

Power swells the head and shatters the crown.

Prerequisites are ego in list form.

Profundity and daring attempts at it are what separate our cultural touchstones from the white noise of daily communication.

Propaganda is where a demagogue plays pedagogue and starts a monologue to leave their audience agog.

Questioning the morals, motives, and actions of a nation-state is not an expression of hatred for it or its predominant religion.

Quoting someone and rewriting their words makes it a quote from you and not them any longer. To change the meaning of someone's words without permission is offensive enough, to then contact the quoted person and try to justify it to them is even worse. It's verbatim or bust!

Regret is a vehicle you choose to drive or leave behind on the hard shoulder of life.

Rejection puts you out of your comfort zone which is usually when you're at your best.

Rich people are notoriously cheap.