{"author":"Piet Hein","author_id":"Piet+Hein","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.","author":"Piet Hein","tags":["speakers","speeches"],"id":23601,"author_id":"Piet+Hein"},{"text":"ON PROBLEMSOur choicest planshave fallen through,our airiest castlestumbled over,because of lineswe neatly drewand later neatlystumbled over.","author":"Piet Hein","tags":["planning","problems"],"id":45684,"author_id":"Piet+Hein"},{"text":"Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said.","author":"Piet Hein","tags":["actions","lovers","poetry","prose"],"id":50180,"author_id":"Piet+Hein"},{"text":"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.","author":"Piet Hein","tags":["problem-solving","problems"],"id":58527,"author_id":"Piet+Hein"},{"text":"WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oilin studies diligent and slow,teaches himself, with painful toil,the things that other people know.","author":"Piet Hein","tags":["know","knowledge","learn","learned","learning","studies","study","teaches","teaching"],"id":59776,"author_id":"Piet+Hein"},{"text":"A WORD TO THE WISELet the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare.Remember, the only acceptable casefor being in any particular place is having no business there.","author":"Piet Hein","tags":["wisdom"],"id":62263,"author_id":"Piet+Hein"},{"text":"ASTRO-GYMNASTICSGo on a starlit night, stand on your head,leave your feet dangling outwards into space,and let the starry firmament you treadbe, for the moment, your elected base.Feel Earth's colossal weight of ice and granite,of molten magma, water, iron, and lead;and briefly hold this strangely solid planetbalanced upon your strangely solid head.","author":"Piet Hein","tags":["astronomy","earth","planet"],"id":64716,"author_id":"Piet+Hein"},{"text":"Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.","author":"Piet Hein","tags":["art","design"],"id":76074,"author_id":"Piet+Hein"},{"text":"Living isa thing you donow or never --which do you?","author":"Piet Hein","tags":["life","living"],"id":82116,"author_id":"Piet+Hein"},{"text":"The road to wisdom? Well  it's plain and simple to express: Err  and err  and err again. But less  and less  and less.","author":"Piet Hein","tags":["failures","mistakes"],"id":98308,"author_id":"Piet+Hein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}