Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Ayn Randwas a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1905
CitySaint Petersburg, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
I think, therefore I'll think.
Never ask people about your work.
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.