Nothing and Dissertations

January 16th is Nothing Day. Some of the world’s top thinkers have had a lot to say about nothing. Here are 12 thoughts on nothing that have something to do with your dissertation…

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. 
— Henry Ford

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. 
— Maya Angelou

If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time. 
— Zig Ziglar

Nothing happens unless first we dream. 
— Carl Sandburg

There is nothing impossible to him who will try. 
— Alexander the Great

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. 
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. 
— Socrates

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. 
— Ernest Hemingway

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. 
— Salvador Dali

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. 
— Calvin Coolidge

I have nothing to declare except my genius. 
— Oscar Wilde

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