| "This telephone has too many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a means of communication. The device
is inherently of no value to us."
-- An internal Western Union memo, 1876
"I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers."
-- IBM chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in
their home."
-- Ken Olson, founder, chairman & president of
DEC, 1977
"640k ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981 (Did he mean $640K?)
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5
tons."
--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the
relentless march of science, 1949
"Everything that can be invented has already been
invented."
-- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent
Office, 1899
"Computer games don't affect kids; I
mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running
around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening
to repetitive electronic music."
- Kristin Wilson, Nintendo, Inc.,
1989.
"A rocket will never be able to leave
the earth's atmosphere."
--The New York Times, 1936
"The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is
English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every
time I add new letters like N and T."
--Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country
and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that
data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
--The editor in charge of business books for
Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what ... is it good for?"
--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems
Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial
value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in
particular?"
--David Sarnoff's associates in response to
his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The world is coming to an end in
1950."
--Historian Henry Adams, 1903
"There is no likelihood man can ever
tap the power of the atom."
--Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert
Milliken, 1923
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the
experiment. The literature was full of examples that said
you can't do this."
--Spencer Silver on the work that led to the
unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this
amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what
do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We
just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll
come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to
Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You
haven't got through college yet.'"
--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on
attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve
Wozniak's personal computer.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between
action and reaction and the need to have something better
than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the
basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert
Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle
development across all of your muscles? It can't be done.
It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept
inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable
condition of weight training."
--Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the
"unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.
"Television won't last because people
will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every
night."
--Producer Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century
Fox, 1946
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try
and find oil? You're crazy!"
--Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist
to his project to drill for oil in 1859
"Well-informed people know it is
impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it
possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical
value."
--Boston Post, 1865
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high
plateau."
--Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale
University, 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military
value."
--Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of
Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous
fiction."
--Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at
Toulouse, 1872
"If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the
production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one."
--W.C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute,
1954
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be
shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane
surgeon."
--Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon,
appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will
not see any political parties."
--Visionary and inventor R. Buckminster
Fuller, 1966
"You ain't going nowhere, son. You
ought to go back to driving a truck."
--The Grand Ole Opry's Jim Denny to
Elvis Presley, 1954
"Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of
removing Windows 95 from my hard drive."
--The winning entry in a "What were
HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE
ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke
"[Andy] Grove giveth and [Bill] Gates taketh
away."
--Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the
trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with
software demands
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in
order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible." --A
Yale University management professor in response to student
Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery
service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"That rainbow song's no good. Take it out."
- MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard Of Oz
"You'd better learn secretarial skills or else get
married."
- Modeling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944
"Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a
hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically
impossible."
- Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-9.
"Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a
nickel."
- MGM executive, advising against investing in Gone With The
Wind
"Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a
little." - A film
company's verdict on Fred Astaire's 1928 screen test
"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an
expert in explosives." - U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945
"Television won't matter in your lifetime or
mine."
- Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936
"And for the tourist who really wants to get away from
it all, safaris in Vietnam."
- Newsweek magazine, predicting popular
holidays for the late 1960s
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~ "Something to Chew On"
(Category #2)
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings
is justice."
-- H.L. Mencken
"Life is hard. It’s even harder if you’re
stupid."
-- Anonymous
"By and large, language is a tool for
concealing the truth."
--George Carlin
"It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is
the size of the fight in the dog!"
-- Anonymous
"An adventure is only an
inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only
an adventure wrongly considered."
--G.K. Chesterton
"The person who is not hungry says that the coconut
has a hard shell."
-- African Tribal Saying
"If you’re looking for friends when you need
them…it’s too late."
-- Mark Twain
"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for
you."
-- Francis Roberts
"Speak in anger and you'll give the
greatest speech you'll ever regret."
-- Anonymous
"It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in
favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different
opinion."
-- William Randolph Inge
Vegetarian is an old Indian word meaning "bad
hunter."
-- Anonymous
"Opinions are like armpits: Everybody has two of them
and they stink most of the time."
-- Anonymous
"Patience is the companion of
wisdom."
--Anonymous
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem.
They're there every night, they see it done every night,
they see how it should be done every night, but they can't
do it themselves."
-- Brendan Behan--Quoted by Gyles Brandreth in *Theatrical
Disasters*
"So long as you rob Peter to pay
Paul, you'll have Paul's support."
-- Anonymous
"Life is an onion. You peel it off one layer at a
time, and sometimes you weep."
-- Carl Sandburg
"Do first what you dread the
most."
-- Anonymous
"Wherever you are -- be there."
-- Anonymous
"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are
made from something they have deep inside of them - a
desire, a dream, a vision. They have last-minute stamina,
they have to be a little faster, they have to have the
skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the
skill."
-- Muhammad Ali
"If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try
missing a couple of car payments."
-- Earl Wilson
"The degree of one's emotion varies
inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you
know the hotter you get." -- Bertrand Russell
"If you aren't living on the edge, then you are taking up too much space."
-- Anonymous
"Without books the development of
civilization would have been impossible. They are the
engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erect
in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers,
magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are
humanity in print."
-- Barbara Tuchman
"The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect."
-- U.S. Andersen
"Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies."
-- St. Augustine
"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."
-- Goethe
"If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for,
demand - innovation from everyone."
-- Tom Peters
"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
-- Dr. E. Land
"It takes a steady hand to carry a full cup."
-- Anonymous
"Progress depends on people knowing they'll be able to profit from
their ideas."
-- Deborah Neville
"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a
menace to society."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"Encouragement is like a premium gasoline - it helps to take knocks out
of living."
-- Anonymous
"The easiest thing to find is fault."
-- Anonymous
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
-- Anonymous
"If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you."
-- Charles Kingsley
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the
ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream."
-- Mark Twain. American humorist, writer and lecturer, 1835-1910
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."
-- Thomas Edison
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices."
William James
"Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude." -- Dr. Martin Luther King
"Act as if it were impossible to fail."
-- Dorothea Brande
"You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
-- Liz Smith
"To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that
ideas will have a chance of connecting."
-- Eric Maisil
"Smooth seas do not make for a skillful sailor."
-- African Proverb
"I've never met a couple yet who, when they were walking down the aisle,
said, 'What we want is three years of happiness, two years of [torment], a
messy divorce and 15 years of fighting over custody of the kids.' "
- Wade F. Horn, assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human
Services
"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything."
--Anonymous
"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you
don't, you will find an excuse."
--Anonymous
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a
good discussion."
-- G.K. Chesterton
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
-- Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher
"You are not what you own."
--Fugazi, American rock band
"I get so tired of listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there. It's so petty."
-- Imelda Marcos, Filipino First Lady (married to Ferdinand Marcos)
"When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion."
-- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 18th-century French author, wit and philosopher
"Virtue has never been as respectable as money."
--Mark Twain, 19th-century American humorist, author and journalist
"God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones."
--Publilius Syrus
“It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.''
--Elvis Presley, celebrity singer
“Sharing money is what gives it its value.”
--Elvis Presley, singer
“The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.”
-- Antiphanes, ancient Greek dramatist
“Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.”
-- B.C. Forbes, founder of Forbes magazine
"He is poor who does not feel content."
-- Japanese proverb
"For greed, all nature is too little."
-- Seneca, Roman statesman and author
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
-- Henry David Thoreau, 19th-century American essayist and nature writer
"Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold."
-- Maurice Setter
"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
-- Anonymous
"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse."
-- Anonymous
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a good discussion."
-- G.K. Chesterton
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true."
-- James Clabell in 1926
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-- Voltaire
"No one can be free who does not work for the freedom of others."
-- Anonymous
"You have freedom of choice, but not freedom from choice."
-- Wendell Jones
"False freedom leaves a man free to do what he likes; true freedom,
to do what he ought."
-- Anonymous
"If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and
approves of you, then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness and,
therefore, your excellence."
--Anonymous
"I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and
speaks forth another."
-- Homer
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be
sometimes cheated than not to trust."
-- Samuel Johnson
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the
rest."
-- Mark Twain
"The reason that worry kills more people than work is because there
are more people who worry than work."
-- Robert Frost
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"I am in shape. Round is a shape."
-- Anonymous
"The task ahead of us is never as great as
the power behind us."
-- Anonymous"A lie sprints. but
truth has endurance."
-- Anonymous
"When you do not listen to your
conscience it's because you do not want advice from a
stranger."
-- Anonymous
"Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience. They look
within themselves and find nothing! Therefore they
conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."
-- Helen Keller
"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with
the sense of responsibility for each others welfare,
social justice can never be attained." --
Helen Keller
"Better to light one small candle than
to curse the darkness." -- Chinese Proverb
"We can easily forgive a child who is
afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are
afraid of the light." -- Plato
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by
doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come
upon the truth." -- Pierre Abelard
"When in doubt, tell the truth." -- Mark Twain
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to
authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using
his memory." -- Leonardo Da Vinci
"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal
to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the
causes of happenings." -- Dorothy Thompson
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you
apologize for the truth." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."
--Ethiopian Proverb
"Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you." --
Spanish Proverb
"As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier
to destroy than to create." -- Mr. Spock, Star Trek 2
"The wise speak only of what they know." -- Gandalf, Lord
of the Rings
"There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere."
-- Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
"You can observe a lot by just watching." -- -- Yogi
Berra's Law
"Resentment
is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies." --
-- St. Augustine
"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician."
-- Anonymous
"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic."
-- Anonymous
"There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year."
-- Anonymous
"In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday."
-- Anonymous
"I plan on living forever. So far, so good."
-- Anonymous
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the
right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
-- Anonymous
"Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever."
-- Anonymous
"If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd
better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or
kill it with the first blow. Anything else will just stir it
up."
-- James Thom
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you
don't understand it yourself."
-- Albert Einstein
"Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has
to make sense."
--Anonymous
"I am not young enough to know
everything."
--Oscar Wilde
"Courage is found in action. It has to be learned -
and earned." -- Doug Hall
"Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the
long run, it is easier." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Wise people talk because they have something to
say; fools, because they have to say something."
-- Plato
"The definition of a gaffe is when a
politician tells the truth."
-- Mike Kinsley
"Find a niche and scratch it."
-- Anonymous
"He who praises himself has a congregation of one".
-- Jewish proverb.
"People will do better, when they know better".
-- Anonymous
"The time is far spent, but well spent".
-- Connie Moses-Drummond
"Everyone is ignorant, only on
different subjects"
--Will Rogers
"A critic is someone who knows the
way, but can't drive the car."
--Anonymous
"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."
-- Helen Hayes
"Heads that are filled with wisdom have little space
left for conceit."
-- Anonymous
"By the time your face clears up, your brain starts
going fuzzy."
--Anonymous
"Every man has his disciples, and
it's always Judas who writes the biography."
--Chicago Tribune
"Let us so live life that when we come to die even
the undertaker will be sorry."
-- Mark Twain
"When were the good and the brave ever in a
majority?"
-- Henry David Thoreau
"You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders.
And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself.
If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility
to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders.
It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what
we take, but we live forever through what we give"
-- Vernon Jordan, in a speech at Howard
University, 2002.
"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe
training has on a pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting
weight."
-- Josh Billings
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or
ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, support
any friend, oppose any for to assure the survival and the
success of liberty."
-- John F. Kennedy
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from
an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be
divested of a crutch."
-- James Baldwin
"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test
before presenting the lesson."
-- Vernon Law
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"What does not destroy me, makes me strong."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's
courage."
-- Anais Nin
"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes
several days attack me at once."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and
sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when
it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
-- Satchel Paige
"Tis the mind that makes the body rich."
-- William Shakespeare
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* Your kid may be an honors student,
but you're still an idiot.
* Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth
control.
* We have enough youth, how about a fountain of Smart?
* He who laughs last thinks slowest.
* Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
* It IS as bad as you think, and they ARE out to get
you.
* Auntie Em, Hate you, hate Kansas, taking the dog.
Dorothy.
* Time is what keeps everything from happening at
once.
* I get enough exercise just pushing my luck.
* All men are idiots, and I married their King.
* Jack Kevorkian for White House Physician.
* Montana -- At least our cows are sane!
* Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.
* Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle
drugs.
* Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
* OK, who stopped payment on my reality check?
* Few women admit their age; Fewer men act it.
* I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute
of it.
* Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off
NOW.
* Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all
of its students.
* Some people are only alive because it is illegal to
kill.
* Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.
* A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited
inventory.
* Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they
appear.
* Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
* We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get
worse.
* Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes.
* Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
* There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count
& those who can't.
* Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?
* Keep honking...I'm reloading
* 2 Kings 9:20
*Dain bramaged.
*Eat Well, Stay Fit, Die Anyway
*Body by Nautilus; brain by Mattel
*Boldly going nowhere
*CAUTION - Driver legally blonde!
*Heart Attacks...God's Revenge for Eating His Animal
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*He's not dead, He's electroencephalographically
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*How many roads must a man travel down before he
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*WANTED: Meaningful overnight relationship.
*Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
*All men are idiots...I married their king.
*IRS We've got what it takes to take what you've got.
*Out of my mind...Back in five minutes.
*Hang up and drive.
*I took an IQ test and the results were negative.
*Where there's a will...I want to be in it.
*It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.
*Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
*Be nice to your kids...They will pick out your
nursing home.
*Always remember you're unique...Just like everyone
else.
*If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of
car payments.
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*Never take life seriously.
*Nobody gets out alive, anyway
*Never knock on Death's door:
*Ring the doorbell and run (he hates that)
*I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel
universe.
*You have the right to remain silent.
*Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against
you.
*You're just jealous because the voices only talk to
me.
*The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.
*Procrastination is the art of keeping up with
yesterday.
*If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
*The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse
gets the cheese.
*Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
*Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with
it.
*CATS: The other white meat
*I'm an imbecile and I vote
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*You're just jealous because the voices are talking to
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"My happiness derives from knowing the people I love
are happy." -- Holly Ketchel
"Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice
cold and lonely as the North Pole."
-- Vicky Baum
"Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age
comes alone -- all by itself."
--Anonymous
"Misers aren't much fun to live with. But they make
wonderful ancestors."
-- Terry Glaspey
"You can get everything you want if you help enough
others get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the
stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in
your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of
your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts
are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong
qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With
it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only
alibis."
- Henry Ford -
"In each of us are places where we have never gone.
Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
"I have come to the conclusion that
there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and
nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences."
--Pete Seeger
"You don't have to be great to get started but you have
to get started to be great."
- Les Brown
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is
the key to unlocking our potential."
- Winston Churchill
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than
him who overcomes his enemies; for the hardest victory is
victory over self."
-- Aristotle
"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the
mouth, is to close it again on something solid."
--G.K. Chesterton
"The rung of a ladder was never meant
to rest upon, but only to support your weight long enough so
you can reach for something higher."
--Anonymous
"The best time to plant a tree is 20
years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is
today."
--African Proverb
"Patience is not so much about
waiting, as it is about how one behaves while waiting."
-- Anonymous
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that
won't work."
--Thomas Edison during the light bulb invention
process.
"A leaky head never swells up."
--Anonymous
"Much of moral indignation is
jealousy with a halo."
--H.G. Wells
"Gossip is when you must hurry and tell someone
before you find out it isn't true."
-- Anonymous
"The character of a person is what he or she is when
no one is looking."
-- Anonymous
"Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying
to put on its shoes."
-- Attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte
"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can
borrow."
--Woodrow Wilson
"Things are only impossible until they're not."
-- Jean-Luc Picard
"It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry
people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the
homeless."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
"Don't Bunt! Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the
company of the immortals."
-- David Ogilvy -
"Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are
you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for
you."
-- William T. Esrey -
"Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use
words."
-- St. Francis of Assisi
"If you must borrow, always borrow from a pessimist.
They don't expect to be paid anyway."
-- Anonymous
"The beginning is the most important part of the
work."
-- Plato, The Republic. Book II.
"The greatest problem with communication is the
illusion that it has been accomplished once and for
all."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in
weakness."
-- Erich Fromm
Humor break -- Ineffective Daily
Affirmations
| -I have the power to channel my
imagination into ever-soaring levels of suspicion and
paranoia. |
- I am willing to make the mistakes if
someone else is willing to learn from them. |
| - To have a successful relationship I
must learn to make it look like I'm giving as much as
I'm getting. |
- I assume full responsibility for my
actions, except the ones that are someone else's
fault. |
| - I no longer need to punish, deceive or
compromise myself. Unless, of course, I want to stay
employed. |
- Just for today, I will not sit in my
living room all day watching TV. Instead I will move
my TV into the bedroom. |
| - Today I will gladly share my
experience and advice, for there are no sweeter words
than "I told you so." |
- The first step is to say nice things
about myself. The second, to do nice things for
myself. The third, to find someone to buy me nice
things. |
| - All of me is beautiful and valuable,
even the ugly, stupid, and disgusting parts. |
- Only a lack of imagination saves me
from immobilizing myself with imaginary fears. |
| - I need not suffer in silence while I
can still moan, whimper and complain. |
- I am grateful that I am not as
judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous
people around me. |
| - I honor my personality flaws, for
without them I would have no personality at all. |
- I can change any thought that hurts,
into a reality that hurts even more. |
| - My intuition nearly makes up for my
lack of good judgment. |
- A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome
as a solution to the problem. |
And Now, Back To The Regularly
Scheduled Programming...
"Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business
are negative."
-- Harold Geneen
"You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the
outfield. You are only as good as the team you have behind
you."
-- Jim Palmer -
"The secret to winning football games is working more
as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but
my best 11.
-- Knute Rockne -
"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble
enterprise."
-- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it... It
is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth."
-- Virginia Woolf
"To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question."
-- S. Tobin Webster
"You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up
again."
-- Bonnie Prudden
"All that is not eternal is out of date."
-- C.S. Lewis
"As a general rule, prosperity is what keeps us in
debt."
-- Anonymous
"If you are living on the edge, then you are taking
up too much space."
-- Anonymous
"We are drowning in information, but starved for
knowledge and wisdom."
-- John Naisbitt
"Their is a fine line between courage and craziness,
and one between wisdom and cowardice. The people who drew
those lines never knew the difference."
-- Anonymous
"I want nothing to do with natural foods. At my age
I need all the preservatives I can get."
-- George Burns
"American men are obsessed with money. American
women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the
women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more
boring."
-- Marya Mannes
"There’s no limit to what a person can do or where
he or she can go, if he or she doesn’t mind who gets the
credit."
-- Anonymous
"A man travels all over the world in search of what
he needs and returns home to find it."
George Moore
"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless
one has plenty of work to do."
--Jerome K. Jerome
"I know God will not give me anything I can't
handle. I just wish He wouldn't trust me so much."
-- Mother Teresa
"Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice."
-- Quoted by Christopher Reeves
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it
from betting on people."
-- W.C. Fields
"The more you have to live for, the less you need to
live on. Those who make acquisition their goal never have
enough."
-- Sydney Harris
"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even
if you win, you're still a rat."
-- Lily Tomlin
"Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it
hurts when God pries your fingers open."
-- Corrie Ten Boom
"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't
have anything to laugh at when you're old."
-- Ed Howe
"Here's to our town -- a place where people spend
money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need to
impress friends they don't like."
-- Lewis C. Henry
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Contentment is destroyed by comparison."
--Anonymous
"Eulogize the mundane."
-- William Kissinger
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but
after a while he or she gets to know something."
-- Wilson Mizner
"Success = Those who are the nearest to me love and
respect me the most."
-- Anonymous
"Some people like my advice so much that they frame
it upon the wall instead of using it."
-- Gordon R. Dickson
Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how
frail we are."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new
problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of
solving an existing one."
-- Albert Einstein
"Doubts are the ants in the pants that keep faith
moving."
-- Fredrick Beuchner
"You can observe a lot by just watching."
-- Berra's Law
"God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our
pain. Pain is His megaphone to rouse a dulled world."
-- C.S. Lewis
"Success in marriage is more than finding the right
person: it is being the right person."
-- Robert Browning
"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events
from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't always seem to
be working."
-- Anonymous
"To solve big problems you have to be willing to do
unpopular things."
-- Lee Iacocca
"We are always one generation away
from total anarchy."
--Anonymous
"Be kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a
hard battle."
-- John Watson
"Always remember that you're unique,
just like everybody else."
--Anonymous
"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it;
ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it
is."
-- Winston Churchill
"God's love elevates us without inflating us, and
humbles us without degrading us."
-- B.M. Nottage
"The most difficult part of golf is learning not to
talk about it."
-- Anonymous
"It is not what is poured into a student, but what
is planted, that counts."
-- Eugene P. Bertin
"The person who has no inner life is the slave to
his or her surroundings."
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
"Little people with little minds and little
imagination jog through life in little ruts, smugly
resisting all changes which would jar their little
worlds."
-- Marie Fraser
"The two quickest ways to disaster are to take
nobody's advice and to take everybody's advice."
-- Dublin Opinion
"Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a
realist."
-- David Ben-Gurion
"Research is the process of going up alleys to see
if they are blind."
-- Marston Bates
"Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy
you to give them an education."
-- Robert A. Cook
"People defend nothing more violently than the
pretenses they live by."
-- Allen Drury
"Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the
plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force
is always unscrupulous and is always cruel. We should
remember this in an age where morality seems to be
disappearing and is being replaced by politics."
-- Eustace Percy
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and
narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on
these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men
and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little
corner of earth all one's lifetime."
-- Mark Twain
"Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their
ingenuity."
-- Gen. George S. Patton
"Ultimately we know deeply that
the other side of every fear is freedom."
-- Marilyn Ferguson
"A heavy purse makes for a light
heart."
-- Irish Proverb
"An appeaser is one who feeds a
crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
-- Winston Churchill
"The worst team in baseball's history won only 55
games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're
virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of
the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't
know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if
you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of
them."
--Tommy La Sorda (addressing Little
Leaguers)
"What we believe about God is the most important
thing about us."
-- A.W. Tozer
"The world is divided into people who do things and
people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the
first class. There's far less competition."
--Dwight Morrow
We're not primarily put on this earth to see through one
another, but to see one another through.
--Peter De Vries
Time is really the only capital that any human being has,
and the one thing that he can't afford to lose.
--Thomas A. Edison
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time
articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
--Thomas A. Edison (In 1876 letter to a
friend.)
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can
only be maintained by violence.
-- Solzhenitsyn
Want to make God laugh? Tell Him you've got plans.
-- Anonymous
...compassionate action is the only valid test of true
spirituality; and people in post-Christian Europe are keenly
aware of this insight. Many have left the conventional
church because they are repelled by the
uncharitable behavior of the devout; crusades, inquisitions
and persecutions, past and present, have discredited
faith....The deification of Diana, Princess of Wales, in the
extraordinary days after her death was a religious event,
due, at least in part, to the fact that Diana had become an
icon of compassion in a depersonalized world.
-- Karen Armstrong, author of "A History
of God"
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School
Board.
-- Mark Twain
The level of civilization in a society may be determined by
entering its prisons.
-- Fydor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
There's a way to do it better -- find it!
--Thomas A. Edison
Everything comes to him that hustles while he waits.
--Thomas A. Edison
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to understanding with the passing whisper of
their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our
hearts.
--Anonymous
A leader is best
When people hardly know that he exists,
Not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
Worst when they despise him....
But of a good leader, who talks little
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, "We did this ourselves."
--Martin Buber, 1957, as quoted by Brynner in
1962
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I
have not seen.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep a smile on your face till 10 o'clock and it will stay
there all day.
--Douglas Fairbanks
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy
days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
--William Feather
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
--Andre Gide
I like my way of doing things better than your way of not
doing them.
--D. L. Moody.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
--Goethe
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face
and not Gary Cooper.
--Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the
leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research
reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy
cookies like you make.
--Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting
Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can be counted.
--Albert Einstein
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger
than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose.
--John Haldane
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstein
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us
to forgo their use.
--Galileo Galilei
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
--Voltaire
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
--Winston Churchill
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream
things that never were and ask why not.
--George Bernard Shaw
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over
the man who cannot read them.
--Mark Twain
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way
out.
--Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles,
1962
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a
miracle.
--Albert Einstein
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and,
if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
--Goethe
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
--Dr. Robert Schuller
Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the
faults of those around me.
--Edgar A. Guest
He started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn't be
done, and he did it.
--Edgar A. Guest
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the
only animal that is struck by the difference between what
things are and what they ought to be.
--William Hazlitt
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be
picked in strangers' gardens.
--Douglas Jerrold
Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
--Thomas a'Kempis
Thou wilt always rejoice in the evening if thou has spent
the day profitably.
--Thomas a'Kempis
Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and
infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for
that thyself also has many failings which must be borned
with by others.
--Thomas a'Kempis
There are two ways to slide easily through life: To believe
everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from
thinking.
--Alfred Korzybski
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
--La Rouchefoucauld
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk
well nor enough judgment to be silent.
--LaBruyere
No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does
the average human being born in the 20th century. Our
ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are
puzzled about the day after
tomorrow.
--Walter Lippman
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while
others judge us by what we already have done.
--Longfellow
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees
and flowers, and clouds, and stars.
--Luther
Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when
we are right, make us easy to live with.
--Peter Marshall
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are
loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of
ourselves.
--Victor Hugo
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends,
you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest
pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
--Alice Duer Miller
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.
--Michelangelo
The less men think, the more they talk.
--Montesquieu
If you treat a man as he is, he will stay as he is, but if
you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, and could
be, he will become that bigger and better man.
--Goethe
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being
loved. It is the finger of God on a man's shoulder.
--Charles Morgan
This day I will become part of the life of someone who needs
help.
--D.H. Mundt
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
--Chinese proverb
When a man has quietly made up his mind that there is
nothing he cannot endure, his fears leave him.
--Grove Patterson
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be
ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
--Norman Vincent Peale
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we
give.
--J. Petit-Senn
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything.
--Edward J. Phelps
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
--Booker T. Washington
I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my
child.
--Tagore
Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
--Elbert Hubbard
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by
just one person.
--V. Putnam
He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most
faithful in the performance of it.
--Rousseau
You understand people better if you look at them--no matter
how old or impressive or important they may be--as if they
were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow
taller.
--Leo Rosten
Mankind is divisible into two great classes, hosts and
guests.
--Sir Max Beerbohm
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to
the air.
--Schiller
"There is danger from all men. The
only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man
living with power to endanger the public liberty."
- Right-wing extremist John Adams (an
ironic designation)
"If ye love wealth better than
liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating
contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not
your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which
feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
- Right-wing extremist Samuel Adams (an ironic designation)
"The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and
tyrants."
- Right-wing extremist Thomas
Jefferson (an ironic designation)
"They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety."
- Right-wing extremist Benjamin
Franklin (an ironic designation)
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate
life.
--Seneca
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your
energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the
mountain ahead that wears you out--it's the grain of sand in
your shoe.
--Service
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing
it than to consume wealth without producing it.
--George Bernard Shaw
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
--Shakespeare
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world
is to be in reality what we appear to be.
--Socrates
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with
others.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You
have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
--Winston Churchill
The greatest gift of sight is to see as Christ sees.
--E. Clayton Calhou
Gandhi had a sign reading: When you are in the right you
can afford to keep your temper; and when you are in the
wrong, you cannot afford to lose it.
--Chester Bowles
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to
make earth happy like the heaven above.
--Julia F. Carney
Man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he
begins to blame somebody else.
--Buffalo News
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not
pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal
to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no
miracle. But you shall be a
miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the
richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the
secret of happiness.
--James M. Barrie
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take
without forgetting.
--Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco
The reason why the Ten Commandments are short and clear is
that they were handed down direct, not through several
committees.
--Dan Bennett
A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in
which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble
over which it runs.
--Henry W. Beecher
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into
everlasting forgetfulness.
-Henry W. Beecher
Life is a long lesson in humility.
--James M. Barrie
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
--Balzac
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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way
they should go must go in the way in which they would have
their children go.
--Bacon
Fear knocked at my door. Faith opened that door and no one
was there.
--Author Unknown
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better
than the oak which resists it.
--Sir Walter Scott
It isn't the thing you do, It's the thing you leave undone
which gives you a bit of a heartache at the setting of the
sun.
--Author Unknown
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I
can do something. What I can do, I ought to do. And what I
ought to do, by God's grace, I will do.
--Author Unknown
The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.
--Leighton
Do not worry about what people are thinking about you--for
they are not thinking about you. They are wondering what you
are thinking about them.
--Anonymous
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness,
yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as
in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the
owner knows not of.
--Jonathan Swift
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the
dawn is still dark.
--Rabindranath Tagore
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is
laughter.
--Mark Twain
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
--Henry Van Dyke
Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and
works to no end.
--H.G. Wells
Do all the good you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
--John Wesley
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a
thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without
comment.
--T. H. White
We search the world for truth; we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful,
From all old flower fields of the soul;
And weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our Mothers read
God knows our strength; he calls us to perform that he knows
we can do.
--H. L. Wolfe
Oh, to have the gift to think for ourselves as we can think
for others!
--Author Unknown
If you are content with the best you have done, you will
never do the best you can do.
--Martin Vanbee
If you see good in everybody,
Nearly everybody will see good in you.
--Author Unknown
Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still
likes you.
--Author Unknown
Learning is like rowing upstream: Not to advance is to drop
back.
--Chinese Proverb
We are not here to play, to dream and drift. We have work to
do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle, face it, 'tis
God's gift.
--Author Unknown
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when
tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the
weight is more than a man can bear.
--George MacDonald
Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I
have no choice.
--Madeleine L'Engle
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law. -Galatians 5:22,23
God must be very great to have created a world that leaves a
mystery as to whether he created it.
--Richard Wurmbrand
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they
do it from religious conviction.
--Blaise Pascal
Recently a small black leader from an African nation went to
speak in Texas. After the speech, someone came
up to him and asked, "Don't you feel intimidated in
front of all these big Texans?" "No," he
said, "I feel like a dime amongst many nickels."
--(furnished by R. Pudaite)
If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is
probably that you have never heard God speak.
--Amy Carmichael
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and
afflict the comfortable.
--Clarence Darrow
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who
gets the credit.
--Harry Truman
People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
--George Bernard Shaw
Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy
people.
--Tchaikowsky
"Lord, give me the strength to
accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust
You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've
already assigned to someone else."
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of
godly things, it would take off something from God's grace;
and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but
small things they become noble.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and
if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you
will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not
lack for nourishment.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well
employed procures a happy death.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Life if well spent, is long.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so
study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it
retains nothing it takes in.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Ask counsel of him who rules himself well. He who does not
punish evil commands it to be done.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
He who thinks little, errs much.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do
against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the
cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way
increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot
hurt your feelings.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
"When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle,
in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it
is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of
arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that
faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning
God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!"
--C. Everett Koop, retired U.S Surgeon
General
Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to
gather wealth and take so little care of your children to
whom you must one day relinquish all?
--Socrates, about 390 B.C.
So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but
then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum
created by your retreat from popular culture.
--Cal Thomas, L.A. Times Syndicate, August
14th, 1989.
In chess you have the general rules. To find the best
position for a piece, to fight for the open line, to have a
strong center, to attack the opponent's king. The real art
in chess is to evaluate the factors because they are so
different. What is more important, one pawn or the open
line? What's more important, the weak position of your king
or some initiative on the queenside? Material must be
compared against time [how long it will take for one's
attack to crystallize relative to an opponent's]. Material
and time must be evaluated against quality [whether pieces
are located on squares that are tactically strong]. It takes
imagination. At the highest level, chess is a talent to
control unrelated things. It is like controlling chaos.
--Gary Kasparov, world chess champion.
A friend is one to whom you may pour out all the contents of
your heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the
gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth
keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
--Arabian Proverb
If I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my
livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.
--Irving Wallace
A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by
giving you its perfume.
--Richard Wurmbrand
I have learned more about the Gospels from the handicapped
people, those on the margins of our society, those who have
been crushed and hurt, than I have from the wise and the
prudent. They have reminded me that we are all weak and all
called to death and that these are the realities of which we
are most afraid.
In the so-called normal world, we look at the titles and
function more than at the person. We look, then we measure
efficiency of action and amount of possessions rather than
quality of being. People are called "Doctor",
"Director", "Chairman" and so on, and
often their relationships with others remain superficial and
exterior, even functional. These aren't relationships
between people: they are relationships between titles or
functions. As long as we are going out to people of other
cultures, we must go not to do good, but to listen, to
touch, to admire, to watch them grow in the beauty of their
being, to see them flower in their own
language, to discover the diversity of mankind. (p.99)
--Jean Vanier, from the book, "Be Not
Afraid"
A man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven
for.
--Rudyard Kipling
I would seek out one or two people who seemed amiable and
would make myself useful to them . . . . I would raise
animals and plants and find joy in their thriving. I would
surround myself with beauty--no matter how primitive and
artless objects, colors, sounds. I would eat and drink well.
When the darkness grows denser, I would penetrate to its
very core and ground, and would not rest until amid the pain
a light appeared to me, for in excessu affectus Nature reverses
herself. I would turn in rage against myself and with the
heat of my rage I would melt my lead. I would renounce
everything and engage in the lowest
activities should depression drive me to violence. I would
wrestle with the dark angel until he dislocated my hip. For
he is also the light and the blue sky which he withholds
from me. Anyway that is what I would do. What others would
do is another question, which I cannot answer. But for you
too there is an instinct either to back out of it or to go
down to the depths. But no half-measures or half-heartedness. . .With cordial wishes, As ever,
---C. G. Yung
To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of
spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in
which we find a new world.
--Ernst CaSirer, 1942
"What yells out at the US public . . . is the
incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of
free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions
are conservative."
--William F. Buckley.
What's free in this country is free enterprise and the more
enterprising you are, the freer you're going to be.
--Errol Smith, black entrepreneur
Forget your experiences, grab the lessons, and keep on
swinging!
--Errol Smith, black entrepreneur
He who has the plan wins. Without a plan of your own, you
run the risk of waking up one day, and finding out that
you've ended up where somebody else wanted you to go! Make a
list of five things that you least want to do that would
change your life if you did them. Pick the first one and
start doing it.
--Errol Smith, black entrepreneur
Never, Never, Never Give Up.
--Winston Churchill
The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.
--Dale Carnegie
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right
once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is
a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. There is no room for
second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's
first place. I have finished second twice in my time at
Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finished second again.
There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for
losers played by losers. It is and always has been an
American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and
to win, and to win. Every time a football player goes to ply
his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the
soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him
has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's
O.K. You've to be smart to be number one in any business.
But more importantly, you've got to play with your
heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough
to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart,
he's never going to come off the field second. . . . And in
truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long
run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind,
the discipline. There is something in good men that really
yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head
combat. I don't say these things because I believe in
the "brute" nature of man or that men
must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I
believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any
man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds
dear - is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a
good cause and he's exhausted on the field of battle -
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