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Jake's Quote of the Day Archive
I have been collecting quotes since I was seventeen in 1984. I get them from reading books, magazines, newspapers, talking to people, surfing the web, watching TV, and all kinds of other sources. Monday through Friday of every week, I send them out via email to my friends. I have shared the quotes listed below with my friends over the years because I find them to be profoundly interesting and insightful. In a certain sense, they are a record of my personal, intellectual and spiritual growth. In many ways I consider these quotes to be my greatest treasure! If you would like to be added to my list please send me an email. The following quotes are from my email Quote of the day and appear in chronological order from 1999 to 2003: Year 1999 1. We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. —T.S. Elliot 2. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. —Albert Einstein 3. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. —Goethe 4. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. —Martin Luther King Jr. 5. I believe that children are the future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they posses inside. Give them a sense of pride. Let the children's laughter remind us of how we used to be. —Whitney Houston (The Greatest Love) 6. A day without laughing is a wasted day. —Pablo Picasso 7. Your best friends should be words because they will never leave you. —Anon 8. God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. —James Barrie 9. A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. —Mark Twain 10. A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops. —Henry Adams 11. Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor...Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. —Mother Theresa 12. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. —Albert Einstein 13. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. —Chinese Proverb 14. How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. —George Washington Carver, American inventor and horticulturist 15. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. —Wayne Gretsky 16. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of day are dangerous men, that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible. —T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) 17. Everything worthwhile is risky. —Clint Eastwood 18. When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. —Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor 19. A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. —Chinese Proverb 20. To whom much is given, much is required. —The Bible 21. A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. —Anon 22. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. —Vince Lombardi 23. The word impossible is not in my dictionary. —Napoleon Bonaparte 24. Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known in the world. —Mathew Arnold 25. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 26. Service to others is the rent I pay for my room in Heaven. —Muhammad Ali 27. The Mothers heart is the classroom of the child. —Anon 28. The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever galling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. —John Muir 29. Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. —Martin Luther King Jr. 30. I'm a wonderful housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. —Zsa Zsa Gabor 31. Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow. —Abraham Lincoln 32. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. —Walter Winchell 33. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. —Gilda Radner 34. When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. —Patrick Overton. 35. A good conscience is a continual Christmas. —Benjamin Franklin 36. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. —Confucius 37. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity! —Albert Einstein 38. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. —Shirley Temple Black (Actress, Singer, and US Ambassador) 39. If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies. —Anon 40. People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. —Elizabeth Ross, 41. I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 42. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding you can know a lot about something without understanding it. —Charles Kettering 43. If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. —Vincent van Gogh 44. 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 45. "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The one thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes." —Charles Swindoll 46. The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. —Albert Einstein 47. "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." —Albert Einstein 48. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. —Albert Einstein 49. On Relativity: When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. —Albert Einstein 50. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. —Edith Lovejoy Pierce Year 2000 51. Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed. —Murial Rukeyser, Poet (1913-1980) 52. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? —Stephen Levine 53. I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —Pablo Picasso 54. If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? —Steven Wright, comedian, 1994. 55. It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. —James Ullman 56. Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. —Jimmy Buffet 57. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success. —Winston Churchill 58. Information is the currency of democracy. —Thomas Jefferson 59. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. —W. Feather 60. The first and the best victory is to conquer self. —Plato 61. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. —Mother Teresa 62. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. —Malcon Forbes 63. All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. —Greg Arnold 64. He who speaks does not know. He who knows does not speak. —Lao-Tzu (Tao Te Ching) 65. The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books—a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. —Albert Einstein 66. There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. —Ben Zander 67. The real secret of success is enthusiasm. —Walter Chrysler 68. There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all. —Anon 69. The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven. —Og Mandino 70. He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers. —Proverb 71. Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." -Lewis Carroll 72. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. —Socrates (Plato's Apology) 73. These are the good old days. —Carly Simon (Anticipation) 74. When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. —Japanese Proverb 75. There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. —Art Turock 76. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. —Buddha 77. It is better to believe than to disbelieve, in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility. —Albert Einstein 78. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. —Abraham Lincoln 79. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a big ship. —BenjaminFranklin 80. Insight is a shift in boundaries. —Neil Larson 81. Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usuallyit's reading his own handwriting. —Norman Collie 82. There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. —Maya Angelou 83. You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. —Navajo Proverb 84. When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. —Anon 85. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. —Albert Einstein 86. Sarcasm is the recourse of a weak mind. —Anon 87. Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. —Al Bernstein 88. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. —Boris Yeltsin 89. If you think that you are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. —Anita Koddick 90. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. —Edith Sitwell 91. I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate. —George Burns 92. If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music. —Albert Einstein (What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.) 93. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. —Aeschylus 94. If you are able to state a problem, it can be solved. —Edwin H. Land, American inventor (of the Polaroid Camera) 95. Persistence is to the character of man what carbon is to steel. —Napoleon Hill 96. ...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition... —Amelia Barr 97. Would you like me to give you a formula for...success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side. —Thomas Watson 98. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. —Muriel Strode 99. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —W.B.Yeats 100. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. —Og Mandino 101. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. —Vidal Sassoon 102. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. —Babe Ruth 103. Keep in mind that if the foundation is weak, the rest of the structure will be affected accordingly. —Anon 104. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. —Confucius 105. There is something about the beginning of spring that almost forces us to look up, get out, and remember that we are part of nature. —Anon 106. Don't focus on the failure. Focus on what you can learn from it. —Tony Robbins 107. When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. —Thomas Edison 108. There is probably no greater power than the power to follow through on what you say you want to do. —Anonymous 109. Information is not knowledge. —Albert Einstein 110. Time is long and life is short; so live it!" —Matt Gillam 111. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. —James Russell Lowell 112. I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. —Louisa May Alcott 113. We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. —Lee Iococca 114. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. —Alexander Smith 115. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 116. Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise. —Phillips Brooks 117. Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. —Nathaniel Emmons 118. Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. —Kahlil Gibran 119. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. —Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 120. Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. —Pearl S. Buck 121. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goals; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. —W. W. Ziege 122. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. —Ralph Waldo Emerson 123. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. —Hannah More 124. When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. —Buckminster Fuller 125. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary new material, but the warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. —Carl Jung 126. Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. —Zig Ziglar 127. There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in. —Erma Bombeck 128. It's a race between the lock-makers and the lock-pickers. —Eric Schmidt (Novell chairman referring to the web and hackers) 129. So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we had the key. —The Eagles (Already Gone) 130. Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. —Ralph Charell 131. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. —Viktor Frankl 132. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. —Albert Einstein 133. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap! —Peter McWilliams 134. Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. —Tennessee Williams 135. The best time to handle a problem is before it ever comes up. —Anthony Robbins 136. Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others." —Francis Bacon 137. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. —Carson, Rachel 138. The attitudes of your friends are like a button on an elevator. They will either take you up or they will take you down. —Alexander Lockhart 139. If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination. —Napoleon Hill 140. One forgives to the degree that one loves. —Frangois duc de La Rochefoucauld 141. If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive... — Eleonora Duse, 1859-1924 Italian Actress 142. As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind —Isabelle Holland 143. And yes the reason I love quotes, it gets us back to the way life used to be and should be and we must be reminded as life is becoming very stressful, very busy, families are no longer what they used to be and I love to be reminded to slow down and smell the roses think about where you are going and what you are doing. They truly give life perspective. —Bobbi Fillmore 144. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. —Henri Bergson 145. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. —Sandra Carey 146. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. —Winston Churchill 147. Happiness is expectation management. —David Cox 148. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. —Anon 149. You know you have to go through hell before you can get to Heaven. —Steve Miller 150. Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. —Sydney J. Harris 151. Attitude is the mind's paint brush. It can color any situation. —Alexander Lockhart 152. Every detail is important. Where do you have a meeting? What is the surrounding environment? People who don't think about these things have a harder time in business. It's got to be the right place. It's got to be the right color. It's got to be the right choice. Everything has to be strategized. You have to know where you're going to come out before you go in. Otherwise, you lose. —Michael Ovitz 153. With a dream in your heart you're never alone. —Dion Warwick (Do you know the way to San Jose) 154. Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. —Albert Einstein 155. Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. —Anon 156. What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? —Bette Greene 157. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. —Ralph Waldo Emerson 158. The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten. —Seymour Jaron 159. I would not swim three quarters of the way across the river just to decide I could not make it and try to swim back. —Brad Ellman 160. Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function. —John Pfeiffer 161. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. —Dwight Eisenhower 162. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper. —Anon 163. Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light. —Jennie Jerome Churchill 164. There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants, more than anything else, to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are-and have always been. —Joseph Brooks 165. I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. —Eugene Forsey 166. The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult. —Marquise du Deffand 167. The truth of the matter is that a rude person with a mobile phone in their hand is a rude person with a mobile phone in their hand. —Jeffrey Nelson 168. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. —Robert Schuller 169. A positive attitude won't let you do anything. But it will let you do everything better than a negative attitude will. —Zig Ziglar 170. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. —Abraham Lincoln 171. A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. —English Proverb 172. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. —Albert Einstein 173. I haven't failed, I've found ten thousand ways that don't work. —Albert Einstein 174. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. —Alphonse Kerr 175. Keep company with those who make your better. —English Saying 176. Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. —Richard E. Byrd 177. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. —Abraham Lincoln 178. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. —Buddha 179. ...students must practice writing regularly if they are to become good writers. We counsel continual revision and show students how to do it. We believe in the truth behind the remark of a French writer that he never finished a piece of writing; when he faced a deadline, he abandoned his work to the printer, but he could always revise it some more if he had the time. —Richard Marius, and Harvey S. Wiener. The McGraw-Hill College Handbook. Second Edition. 180. Minds are like parachutes-they only function when open. —Thomas Dewa 181. He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. —Confucius 182 You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. —Smeltzer, Ruth 183. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. —Benjamin Franklin 184. If you can do it; it ain't bragging. —Dizzy Dean (Baseball Player) 185. The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going. —David Jordan 186. "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." —Muhammad Ali 187. Worry is like a rocking chair—it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. —Dorothy Galyean 188. There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. —Josiah Gilbert Holland 189. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars. —Les Brown 190. It all has to make sense: I am not the only one making strategic decisions. But you need a strategy that can fit inside one brain, and the buck stops here. I am charged with making sure that every one understands the strategy, and is motivated by it. —Bill Gates 191. The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. —John Foster Dulles 192. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. —Martin Luther King 193. Design is thinking made visual. —Saul Bass 194. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. —Harriet Beecher Stowe 195. Power comes not from knowledge kept, but from knowledge shared. A companies values and reward system should reflect that idea. —Bill Gates 196. Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. —Albert Einstein. 197. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they make them. —George Bernard Shaw 198. I am a great believer in luck, I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it. —Thomas Jefferson 199. Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. —Maya Angelou 200. Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. —William James 201. The best way out of a difficulty is through it. —Anon 202. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. —Derek Bok 203. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say; here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. —Martin Luther King Jr. 204. An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. —Charles Kettering 205. The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. —Anon 206. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving, but does not make any progress. —Alfred A. Montapert 207. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —Pablo Picasso 208. I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten — happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. —Ueland, Brenda 209. We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons... — Alfred E. Newman 210. It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. —Albert Schweitzer 211. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. —Colette 212. Sometimes (when surfing) you reach a point of being so coordinated, so completely balanced, that you feel you can do anything - anything at all. At times like this I find I can run up to the front of the board and stand on the nose when pushing out through a broken wave; I can goof around, put myself in an impossible position and pull out of it, simply because I feel happy. An extra bit of confidence can carry you through, and you can do things that are just about impossible. —Midget Farrelly 213. A positive thinker learns to knock the "t" off the "can't." —Anon 214. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. —Napoleon Hill 215. I used to say that politics was the second oldest profession, and I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first. —Ronald Reagan, one year before he became the president. 216. Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. —Pope John XXIII 217. There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost. —Franz Kafka (1883-1924) 218. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. —George C. Lichtenberg 219. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. —Marilyn Vos Savant 220. What could be more important than your thoughts? asked the Mind, nothing as long as you think with your heart, replied the Soul. —Anon 221. Failure is usually the line of least persistence. —Wilfred Beaver 222. Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. —Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Poet, Dramatist, and Novelist 223. Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. —Schopenhauer, Arthur 224. People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. —Saint Augustine 225. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. —Anon 226. A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery 227. What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning. —Proverb 228. He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need to be forgiven. —George Herbert 229. A genius only makes the same mistake once. —Kevin Roberts (Satchi & Satchi add agency CEO) 230. Never think of the consequences of failing, you will always think of a negative results. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts! —Michael Jordan 231. It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it! —Somerset Maugham 232. The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. —Roy L. Smith 233. The fountain of youth is to love your work. I have a passion for what I do. —Sumner Redstone 234. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. —Anon 235. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. —Albert Einstein 236. Good artists copy. Great artists steal. —Pablo Picasso 237. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. —Lauren Bacall 238. One person with courage makes a majority. —Andrew Jackson 239. The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. —Alexander Graham Bell 240. All progress involves risk; you can't steal home with your foot on third. —Anon 241. A good book, you never finish; you read it over and over again. —Carmen Luz Herlihy 242. It is not the critic who counts. The credit belongs to the man who is actually is in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust, sweat and blood. Who at best knows the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly. So that he shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. The greatest risk is not taking one. —Anon 243. The ways are many. The end is one. —James Kahn 244. A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place. —H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 245. An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. —Charles Bukowsky 246. If you don't love what you do, going to work is like going to jail every day, and most people spend their lives in jail. —Cindy Ehrlich 247. The moment man first picked up a stone or a branch to use as a tool, he altered irrevocably the balance between him and his environment. . . . While the number of these tools remained small, their effect took a long time to spread and to cause change. But as they increased, so did their effects: the more the tools, the faster the rate of change. [-James Burke, (Connections)] 247.5 Knowledge is the ultimate power tool. —Bill Gates 248. My religion is to do good, and my country is the world. —Anon. 249. There are no accidents. —Miles Davis 250. He, who travels alone, travels furthest. —Proverb
250.5 I have a very special quote
to share with you today. On
Saturday evening I was at a cocktail party that some close friends
parent's were having to celebrate their upcoming wedding. My friend, Melissa Marshall, soon to be Mrs. Melissa Barber was
having the party thrown in her honor along with her fiancé, and close pal
of mine, Patrick Barber. Melissa's
uncle is the famous aerial photographer, Robert Cameron. Mr. Cameron is 89 years young and is famous for his Above books,
which include, Above San Francisco, Above Paris, and Above New York.
I
was having a fascinating conversation with the old boy about photography
as an art form. He told me
about an argument he had in 1970 with his contemporary and close friend,
Ansel Adams. They were
arguing about whether photography was an art form or not. Robert was arguing that it was not. Adams quickly changed Cameron's mind when he responded,
"Photography is the greatest invention for recording and
communicating, but if someone receives an emotional response from one of
my images, then to him it is an art form."
There, you have it! Precious insight between two of the greatest photographers in history. (QOD 10-9-2000) 251. Success should be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. —Anon. 252. The unknown always yields to the those with the will to discover. —Anon 253. The most expensive possession you can have is a closed mind. It will cost you all your life. —Ross Jeffries 254. Warren Buffet was right again. Cash flow, profitability and earnings matter. Launch parties and sock puppets don't. —Michael Dell 255. Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. —Anonymous 256. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. —Mark Twain 257. Blessed is the man with the wisdom of the ages and the heart of a child. –Anonymous 258. Show me a beautiful woman, and I will show you a man who takes her for granted. —Anon 259. You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. —Sam Levenson 260. One person with an belief, is just that; one person with a belief. But when two people share an idea, you have a political movement. —Anon 261. If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation If there is order in the nation, there will be Peace in the World. —Chinese Proverb 262. If we found out that we all had five minutes to live, every phone line in the world would be tied up with people calling other people to stumble about how much they love them. So don't wait until we only have five minutes to live—do it now.—Trisha Wright 263. A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. —Joseph Roux (Meditations of a Parish Priest) 264. If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. —Chinese proverb 265. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. —Mark Twain 266. If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight-room house. If a man got possession of all that gold ,-- billions of dollars worth, he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience, or a sense of eternity. —Charles Banning Year 2001 267. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. —Buddha 268. Beauty is something we all admire, but beauty without charm is like a meal without spices. —Bernard Chevallier. 269. The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream. —Anon 270. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. —Anon 270. People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. —Neil Postman 271.Twenty years from now you will be disappointed by things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. —Mark Twain 272. I think there are two kinds of people when it comes to wisdom: people who regurgitate—like Parakeets, and those who are truly wise because they profoundly relate to wisdom. —Humberto Ruiz Jr. 273. Women think from North to South, while Men think from South to North. —Maria Constantino 274. Most people are as happy as they decide to be. —Abraham Lincoln 275. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. —Thomas Edison 276. Genius is knowing how far, too far to go. —Dustin Hoffman 277. Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? —Rose Kennedy (Times to Remember) 278. The definition of success—To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded. —Ralph Waldo Emerson 279. "With many companies we start, we don't even do the figures in advance. We just feel there's room in the market. . . .We try to make the figures work out after the event." —Richard Branson, Virgin Group 280. "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence therefore is not an act, but a habit" —Aristotle 281. Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. —Anon 282. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. —B.F. Skinner. 283. Failure is the tuition you pay for success. —Walter Brunell 284. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. —Thomas Jefferson 285. "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." —Coco Chanel 286. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. —Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 287. Almost every man has a strong natural desire of being valued and esteemed by the respect of his species, but I am concerned and grieved to see how few fall into the right and only infallible method of becoming so. That laudable ambition is too commonly misapplied and often ill employed. Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous. Nor is it strange; since men of virtue are so rare, so very rare to be found. If we were as industrious to become good as to make ourselves great, we should become really great by being good, and the number of valuable men would be much increased; but it is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain, that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. —Benjamin Franklin 288. I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with; and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. In the matter of diet, I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me, until one or the other of us got the best of it. I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. As for drinking, when the others drink I like to help. I have ever taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. —Mark Twain 289. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. — Rumi 290. "The Song of the River" written by William Randolph Hearst in 1941 at his Wyntoon Estate on the McCloud River in Northern California foothills of Mount Shasta: The snow melts on the mountain 291. God is a comedian playing to an audience too scared to laugh. —Voltaire 292. "Isn't it great that all the people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there!" —Herb Caen 293. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. —Henry David Thoreau 294. "There is no one who can take our place. Each of us weaves a strand in the web of creation. There is no one who can weave that strand for us. What we have to contribute is both unique and irreplaceable. What we withhold from life is lost to life. The entire world depends upon our individual choices." —Duane Elgin 295. In the end, a vision without the ability to execute is probably a hallucination. —Stephen Case, Chairman, AOL Tim Warner. 296. The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee. —Anonymous 297. You can go to France, but you will never be a Frenchman. You can go to Japan, but you will never be Japanese. You can go to China, but you will never be Chinese. You can go Germany, but you will never be German. But anyone can come to America from anywhere and become an American. —Ronald Reagan (During a speech commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.) 298. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. —Peter Drucker 299. If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. —Jean-Paul Sartre. 300. Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. —Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) 301. Friendship is love without wings. —Lord Byron 302. "Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 21 (1903). 303. "For a favor done is a favor received; and the debt is no more that the monetary sign of a social obligation. The ‘confidence’ its members have in the credit system is their trust in a social order. " —Anon. 304. "There are no accidents" —Miles Davis 305. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." —George Bernard Shaw 306. "Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. blind/deaf author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 20 (1903). 307. "The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), American blind/deaf author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 23 (1903). 308. "Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. blind/deaf author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 3, "Personality" (1903). 309. Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. —Hellen Keller, The open door, 1957 310. On Ancestry "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1903). 311. On Planning "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), U.S. general, Republican politician, president. One of Eisenhower's favorite maxims. Quoted by Richard Nixon in: Six Crises, "Krushchev" (1962). 312. "Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." —Dr. William Menninger. 313. "Age and experience will always beat out youth and inexperience." —Tonny Robbins 314. "He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers" —Proverb 315. "Repetition is the mother of skill" —Proverb 316. Persistence "Nothing in the world can take he 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 Coolige 317. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." —Thomas Edison 318. "We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us." —Winston Churchill 319. "...Love is seldom what it seems, only other peoples dreams." —Frank Sinatra 320. "All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. "—Danny Thomas. 321. "I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's talent and the passion that count in success." —Ingrid Bergman 322. On The Arms Race "Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), U.S. general, Republican politician, president. Speech, April 1953, Washington, D.C. 323. "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." —Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-American theoretical physicist. Quoted in: News Chronicle (14 March 1949)." 324. "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." —Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born U.S. physicist. Motto for the astronomy building of Junior College, Pasadena, California. 325. "Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage." —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), U.S. general, Republican politician, president. Broadcast speech, 28 Jan. 1954 326. The first time I walked into a trophy shop, I looked around and thought to myself, 'this guy is good!" —Fred Wolf 327. Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.----Bertolt Brecht 328. Habit is stronger than love. —Umburto Ruiz 329. I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. —T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. Quoted in: New York Times (21 Sept. 1958) 330. "We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. author, lecturer. My Religion, pt. 1, ch. 6 (1927). 331. You look to the bottom of everything—it's money. —Sid Ceaser (On Charlie Rose) 332. Man has to be part of the action and passion of his times, or to be judged not to have lived. —Oliver Wendel Homes. (Philosopher and former Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ) 333. "I don't do favors—I gather debts" —Sicilian saying. (sent in By Chris Caen.) 334. The least expensive way, almost always ends up being the most expensive way. —Anon 335. Self righteousness has given way to situational ethics. —Anon 336. If you don't have dreams, they can't come true. —Anon 337. There is more to life than increasing its speed. —Gandhi 338. "I jes trying to get on without shovin' anybody, that's all." —Henry Fonda, "The Grapes of Wrath" 339. "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." —Archibald McLeish 340. Noting that the president recently said critics had "misunderestimated" him, Brown deadpanned: "They elected the symbol of ebonics to the presidency of this nation. There ain't no brother in Oakland, or anywhere else, that would run the phrase or mix up the words the way this cat does. It raises serious questions about whether he's really white."--At state Dem convention, Willie Brown cracks wise about President Bush's verbal tribulations. 341. "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." —John Steinbeck 342. "One should count each day a separate life." —Seneca 343. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. —Napoleon Hill 344. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (sent in by David Rosenthal) 345. "For me, the safest place is out on a limb." —Shirley MacLaine 346. Take care of the Luxuries, and the necessities will take care of themselves. —Frank Lloyd Wright. 347. "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island . . . and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life." —Walt Disney 348. "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." —Abraham Lincoln 349. Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system. —Stephen R. Covey 350. Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. —Dane Von Hurst 351. April hath put a spirit of youth in everything — William Shakespeare 352. "The most important thing is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well." —The Olympic Creed 353. You know, when you grow up in the suburbs of Sydney or Auckland or Newcastle, like Ridley or Jamie Bell, well, the suburbs of anywhere. You know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it's possible. —RussellCrowe 354. "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." —G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) 355. Hold fast to dreams, for If dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. —Langston Hughes 356. "I promise to keep on living as though I expect to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years, People grow old only by deserting their ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." —Douglas MacArthur 357. "He turns not back who is bound to a star." —Leonardo Da Vinci 358. "If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life." —Chris Evert 359. "The
best mirror is an old friend." —Anon. 361. "I expect to pass through this world but once; any good things that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creatures, let me show it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." —William Penn (1644-1718) 362. "All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." —Dale Carnegie 363. In order to make something that is truly new, you must first destroy something that is old. Be that an old building to make a new one, or a prevalent thought for a new paradigm. Columbus had to destroy the old world notion that the world was flat in order to create the new world notion that it was round. —Ryan Kuder 364. You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. —Brian Tracy 365. "He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty." —Lao-tzu 366. A man hears what he wants to hear and he disregards the rest. —Simon and Garfunkel (The Boxer) 367. "Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third." —Knute Rockne 368. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau 369. A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.--Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper 370. Everything that can be digital will be digital. —Bill Gates 371. There are two things that people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise. —Mary Kay Ash 372. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. —George MacDonald 373. "Few companies would have reached the going concern stage without the inflated confidence of their founders. Entrepreneurs tend to be like eighteen-year-old marines who believe the bullet will go right through them without hurt or harm." —Deaver Brown 374. The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going. —David S. Jordan 375. If you let others dictate your business, they will. —Anon 376. Lose your dreams and you will loose your mind. —Mick Jagger (Goodbye Ruby Tuesday)
377. "Whatever
you do, you need courage. Whatever 378. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." —Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948) 379.
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life
is a beauty, admire it. Life
is a dream, realize it. Life
is a challenge, meet it. Life
is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life
is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life
is a song, sing it. Life
is a struggle, accept it. Life
is a tragedy, confront it. Life
is an adventure, dare it. Life
is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it." —Mother Teresa (1910-1997) 380. Men use love to get sex, women use sex to get love. —Anon 381. Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. —Michael Jordan 382. There are four things in life I need to live comfortably. As long as I can eat, sleep, shit and fuck well, everything is o.k. —Roger Bramy 383. "An optimist is the human personification of spring." —Susan J. Bissonette 384. Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. —Francis Hutcheson (Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue) 385. If you don't embrace your emotions, they will strangle you. —Joy Young 386. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. —Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher (1813-1855) 387. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. —Karl Wallenda 388. "Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." —Joaquin Setanti 389. Most of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. —Alexander Woollcott
390. If
you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." 391. "The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first." —Ginger Rogers 392. "To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life." —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author 393. I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. —Frank Sinatra 394. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." —Leonardo da Vinci 395. "Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue." —John Herschel, scientist (1792-1871) 396. Life should be a celebration! We are here for a short time and should make the most of it. —Hugh Hefner on his 75th birthday 397. There is no limit to what a man can do, or where he can go, if he does not mind who gets the credit. —Plaque on Ronald Reagan's Desk. 398. "The true gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity, who is himself humbled if necessity compels himself to another: who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company. A man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe." —John Walter Wayland 399. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities and the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Great men can't be ruled. —Ayn Rand 400. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. —Norman Vincent Peale 401. "The opportunity is often lost by deliberating." —Publius Syrus 402. "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." —John F. Kennedy 403. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." —Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) 404. Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. —Led Zeppelin (Over the hills and far away) 405. He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. —Thomas Fuller 406. In reality, I have not left home. My backyard has just grown bigger. Now the world is my backyard. –Buckminister Fuller, quoted by J. Baldwin 407. History is a lie, agreed upon. —Anon 408. "Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep" —Sigmund Freud 409. Intellectual property is the backbone of our economy. —Bill Gates, CEO Summit 2001 410. "Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain." —Diane De Pottiers 411. Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower. —S. H. Simmons 412. "The Dark Ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think." —Buckminster Fuller, from "Cosmography" (MacMillan, 1932) 413. The secret to success is to know something that nobody else knows. —Aristotle Onasis
414.
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 415. "I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation." —Mike Todd 416. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. —Robert Schuller 417. Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. —John Updike, "Rabbit at Rest" (DR) 418. Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. —Mary Tyler Moore 419. The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do. —Henry Moore 420. "Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad." —Christina Rosetti 421. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." —William James 422. "The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them." —Socrates, philosopher (469 B.C.-399 B.C 423. "You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend." —Yasir Arrafat (On going to war over religion) 424. "I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely." —Kim Basinger 425. "If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape." —Anon 426. Those who can't think fight. —Heather Graham (Lost in Space) 427. A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. —Kenneth Tynan 428. If you are not cannibalizing your own business somebody else will. —Jack Welch 429. "Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack." —George S. Patton, American general (1885-1945) 430. Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is." —Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady) 431. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. —William Feather 432. There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love, there is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. —Wayne Dyer 433. "Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans." —Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) French general and president of the Fifth Republic 434. There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. —Charles Proteus Steinmetz 435. Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. —Homer Simpson 436. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. —John Neal 437. You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. —Jimi Hendrix 438. Necessity knows no law. —Publilius Syrus 439. If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 440. "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it." —George Bernard Shaw, author (1856-1950) 441. "Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it." —Chuck Noll 442. "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research." —Tom Lehrer...from the song "Lobachevsky" 443. "There is no such thing as Heaven...but somewhere there is a San Francisco." —Mark Twain 444. He gives double who gives unasked. —Arabian proverb 445. "The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." —Mark Twain 446. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day. —Abraham Lincoln 447. "If you foolishly ignore beauty, you'll soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life" —Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times Magazine, October 4, 1953 448. High expectations are the key to everything. —Sam Walton 449. The George Carlin Theory: "The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch and you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you go back into the womb, spend your last nine months floating...and you finish off as an orgasm." 450. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. —Herman Melville 451. Anything that does not kill you will only make you stronger. —Anon 452. Your focus determines your reality. —Star Wars (Phantom Menace) 453. Success is not about recognition, it is about personal development. —Anon 454. Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. —Alfred Hitchcock 455. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. —Oliver Wendell Holmes 456. Love is ACTIVE concern for the psychological / spiritual growth of another person, or of one's self. —Steve Smith 457. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. —Friedrich Nietzsche 458. We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us—how we can take it, what we do with it—and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty—that is the test of living. —Joseph Fort Newton 459. Forgiveness is the final form of love. —Reinhold Niebuhr 460. He who dares nothing need hope for nothing. —Anon 460.5 Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference between a date and a job interview is that in not many job interviews is there a chance you'll wind up naked at the end of it. —Seinfeld 461. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. —Abraham Maslow 462. I don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you are a success. —George Burns 463. Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind to express itself forcefully.—Unknown 464. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. —Franklin D. Roosevelt 465. How I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then. —Bob Seger (Against the Wind) Year 2002 466. "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." —John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 467. "We must not let foreign enemies use the forms of liberty to destroy liberty itself." —George W. Bush 468. You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes—you just might find—you get what you need. —Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) 469. People who trade freedom for security soon have neither. —Milt Copulos 470. "I'm very lucky in terms of making these predictions. I've got the $5 billion of Microsoft R and D to not only sit and speculate, but to tell those guys, "OK, you'd better make these things come true." —Bill Gates 471. In one way or another, everything is derivative. —Anon 472. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —Arthur C. Clarke 473. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. —Anon. 474. Success leaves clues. —Anon 475. "I believe in America." —The first line from The Godfather. 476. The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way in which we use them. —Anon 477. "What poison is to food, self-pity is to life." —Oliver C. Wilson 478. Do that which results in taking no action, and order will prevail. —Toa Te Ching 479. "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." —Jacob Chanowski 480. When you're dead you're dead. Any religion that denies that obvious fact does not deserve our belief. When we're alive we ought to enjoy it!—Al Hillix 481. The heights reached by great men and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upwards in the night. —Henry Wadworth Longfellow 482. Experience is the best (but most expensive) teacher. —Anon 483. You see a mans true strength when you take away all of his crutches. —Anon 484. Love is never having to say you are sorry. —Love Story 485. If you know a man's fear, you can conquer him. —Anon 486. Doing things that make you physically strong will make you emotionally strong. —Tony Robbins 487. "There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job." —Peter Drucker 488. It's not the fire that effects you. It's how you react to the fire. —Larry King 489. "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads." —Erica Jong 490. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. —Norman Cousins 491. The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. —Helen Keller 492. We should try never to let our happy frame of mind be disturbed. Whether we are suffering at present or have suffered in the past, there is no reason to be unhappy. If we can remedy it, why be unhappy? And if we cannot, what use is there in being depressed about it? That just adds more unhappiness and does no good at all. —Dalai Lama 493. Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. —Albert Camus 494. There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid that you will succeed. —Ray Goforth 495. Failures are only superficial skinned knees. —Anon 496. A stranger is a friend you just haven't met yet. —Anon 497. The only way to really learn something is to have failed. —Michael Crichton 498. Computers in the future will only weight a mere 1.5 tons. —Popular Mechanics (1949) 499. History will be kind to me because I will write that history. —Winston Churchill 500. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. —Shakespeare (As You Like It) 501. "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." —Mahatma Gandhi 502. There is no learning without pain. —Plato 503. After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an accident, it makes you wonder about history. —Dave Barry(DR) 504. "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." —Henry David Thoreau (DR) 505. Things are always at their best in their beginning. —Blaise Pascal 506. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. —Marcus Aurelius 507. People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning. Then there will be no failure. —Lao-tzu 508. "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." —Jean Paul (DR) 509. Ignorance is the womb of monsters. —Henry Ward Beecher 510. Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. —Bob Brown 511. One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. —Joseph Joubert 512. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 513. The lighthouse is there. We can either break ourselves against it, or we can use it as a guiding light. —Stephen Covey. 514. The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. —Dale Carnegie 515. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. —Jim Rohn 516. Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. —Henry Ward Beecher 517. "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." —Emile Zola (1840-1902) 518. Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. —Albert Camus 519. Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. —Jim Fiebig 520. Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. —Sir Cecil Beaton (MH) 521. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. —Martin Luther King, Jr. 522. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde (MH) 523. "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." —Henry Ford (christian nguyen) 524. The darkest light is before the dawn. —Anon 525. Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your feet on first. —Frederick Wilcox (MH) 526. Following your passion is the key to success. —Phillip McGraw 527. The wildest colts make the best horses. —Plutarch (MH) 528. If it's not going to plan, maybe there never was a plan. (Bill Spaulding) 529. We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. —Anon (Brad Ellman) 530. California girls are the greatest in the world...each one a song in the making. —John Stewart (Gold) 531. When things don't go your way, don't be surprised if it ends up being a blessing in disguise. —Marjorie Ehrlich 532. If you live the lie long enough it becomes the truth. —Cary Grant 533. The three worst sins are: -Wanting something because you can't have it. -Wanting something because somebody else wants or has it. -Worse of all is wanting something you already have (but don’t realize.) -Anon 534. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, until you get over there and realize its all just weeds. —Chi Ching Herlihy 535. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. —Anon 536. In times of challenge, there are two things you can do: you can either step on the brakes, or step on the gas. —Andy Grove. 537. There's nothing like the real thing. —Anon 538. If you never expect anything, you will never be disappointed. —Dora Jane Ehrlich 539. "Life is short and uncertain. Eat dessert first.." -Miss Penny (BE) 540. We seek not to emulate the masters, we seek what they sought. -Anon 541. Birds of a feather flock together. -Anon 542. Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. ~ Sir Thomas Browne 543. I have been through some awful things in my life, some of which have actually happened. -Mark Twain 544. "I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost (steve smith) 545. The ancestor to every action is a thought. -Ralph Waldo Emerson 546. The Final frontier is not space, it is the human imagination. -Boeing 547. Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing.- Tilopa (10th century) 548. The best gift you can give to yourself is a nice comfortable surrounding. -Oprah 549. "One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus' statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that."-Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D. 550. "Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."- Oprah Winfreh 551. A lady by definition is a woman that makes it easy for a man to be a gentle man. -Bobby Wilcox. 552. The key to fashion is knowing how to accessorize. -Jason Dunn 553. Nothing makes money. -Art Buckwald 554. Our truest life... is when we are in our dreams awake. -Therauea 555. Whether you are rich or poor it's always nice to have money. -Zsa ZsaGabor 556. Simplify, Simplify, Simplify. -Henry David Therua? 557. We might have returned to normal during these past six months, ... but the fear and chaos of that day shifted something within us, something delicate and unacknowledged and, for now, unresolved.” --Joan Ryan 558. I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. - Vonnegut 559. "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." -Henry Ford 560. And of course, with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth - the critic. - Narrator in 'History of the World: Part I' (1981) 561. "I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." -Henry Emerson Fosdick 562. The time to live and the place to die. That's all any man gets. No more, no less.- Parson (Hank Worden) in The Alamo 563. Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.- The Ringo Kid (John Wayne) in Stagecoach 564. The mind cannot foresee its own advance. - Hayek 565. Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.- Booker T. Washington 566. Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. ~ Alice H. Rice 567. The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you got it made. - Groucho Marx 568. "Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path."- Henry Winkler, actor and director 569. "What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help."- Donald Keough, former president of Coca-Cola 570. "Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."- An Wang 571. Reality is that which when you stop believing in it doesn't go away.- Philip K. Dick 572. The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. -Aristotle Onassis 573. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.- Michelangelo 574. The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~ Ben Franklin 575. "Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible."- Author Unknown 576. Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies. Voltaire 577. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.- John Powell 578. "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -Confucius 579. Without a struggle, there can be no progress. - Frederick Douglass 580. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.- Eleanor Roosevelt 581. When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger.~ Lindsey Stewart 582. "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery 583. He conquers who endures.- Persius 584. In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it . -Epictetus - born AD 50 585. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 586. The best is the enemy of the good. -Voltaire 587. "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.'' - James Michener 588. Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier. -Mother Teresa 589. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.- T.S. Eliot 590. When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life. ~ Alfre Woodard 591. Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Tales of a Wayside Inn) 592. You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. ~ Diana Ross 593. "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." -Immanuel Kant 594. My lady, would you sleep with me for a million pounds? Certainly. . . Would you sleep with me for ten pounds? Certainly not!! What do you think I am a prostitute? Well, we've already established that, now we're just haggling over the price. -George Bernard Shaw 595. "By the time we've made it, we've had it."- Malcolm Forbes 596. "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." - Henry David Thoreau 597. "God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends." -Addison Mizner 598. The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. ~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger 599. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. ~ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (U.N. Article 1.10 December 1948) 600. It is the lack of order which makes us slaves; the confusion of today discounts the freedom of tomorrow. Henri Frederic Amiel (from Order and Freedom) 601. You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. You're about to enter into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone !!
602. Half of the American people have never read a
newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
603. Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies
in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but
leads none of us by the same route. 604. Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
605. October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to
curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book. 606. Old age is always 15 years older than you are. 607. "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." -Ursula K. Le Guin
608. Intolerance has been the curse of every age and
state.
609. "The expert at anything was once a beginner."
610. Whatever reason you have for not being somebody, there's somebody who had that same problem and overcame it.~ Barbara Reynolds 611. "Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them." -Jawaharlal Nehru 612. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? - Rabbi Hillel 613. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 614. "One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." -Martin Luther King Junior 615. I was a-trembling because I'd got to decide forever betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied for a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, " All right, then, I'll go to hell." -Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huck. Finn) 616. The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ~ Helen Keller 617. Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart. ~ Alice Walker 618. "There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."-- Mark Twain 619. "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." -Enrique Jardiel Poncela 620. "One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force." -David Borenstein 621. Never explain - your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway. - Elbert Hubbard 622. Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. - Pascal 623. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci 624. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." -Walt Disney 625. "Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." -Kin Hubbard 626. Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.~ Baltasar Gracian y Morales (The Worldly Art of Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle) 627. Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. - Ansel Adams 628. If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. ~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld (Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims) 629. It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe--though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now because it's in the past, because we have survived.~ Susan Sontag 630. Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.--Walt Disney (March 1, 1941) 631. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson
632. "Sadness flies away on the wings of time.'
633. "No one knows what he can do until he tries." 634. Embrace the world, and the world will embrace you.- Janet Mehlhop 635. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes 636. "A brother is a friend given by Nature." -Legouve 637. There are one hundred men seeking security - to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. - J. Paul Getty 638. "Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.'' -Lillian Smith, American writer
639. "Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and
the resigned." 640. "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."--Thomas Jefferson 641. "Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. This struggle is called life." 642. Every great scientific truth goes through three stages: First, people say it conflicts with the Bible, Next, they say it has been discovered before, Lastly, they say they always believed it.--Jean Louis Agassiz [1807-1873] 643. "Happiness is the result of being too busy to be miserable."- Author unknown 644. Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. -Yoda, from Star Wars V 645. Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!"? -Bill Watterson, from Calvin & Hobbes 646. Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. -Henry David Thoreau 647. "I think, therefore I am" -Rene Descartes 1596-1650 648. "Keep your THOUGHTS positive...Because your thoughts become your WORDS. Keep your WORDS positive...Because your words become your ACTIONS. Keep your ACTIONS positive...Because your actions become your HABITS. Keep your HABITS positive...Because your habits become your VALUES. Keep your VALUES positive...Because your values become your DESTINY." 649. Few minds wear out; more rust out. -Christian Nestell Bovee 650. Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by. -Preston Sturges, Epitaph 651. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. -Babe Ruth 652. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.-Hector Berlioz 653. An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.-Herbert Samuel 654. While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. -Ronald Reagan,US president, 1992 655. Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. -Sidney J. Harris 656. Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. -James Russel Lowell 657. If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.-Abraham Lincoln 658. Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! -Golda Meir- New York Times, 6//10/73 659. Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. -Anonymous 660. Applaud friends, the comedy is over. -Ludwig van Beethoven, last words 661. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. -Dale Carnegie 662. The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. -Sigmund Freud 663. My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.-Ernest Hemingway 664. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. -Mao Tse-tung, revolutionary and party chairman 665. Life is what happens while you are making other plans. -John Lennon, singer and songwriter 666. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, reporter, editor, US First Lady 667. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -George Orwell, author 668. Business means compromise. -Franz Huber 669. Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. -Rush Gordon 670. My father always told me. Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life. -Jim Fox 671. Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.-Ruiz
672. "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
673."What poison is to food, self-pity is to life."
674. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make
ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." 675. Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.-- Howard Scott 676. "The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection."--Goethe
677. "Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is."
678. "'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to
use." 679. Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.- T. Roosevelt 680. The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.~ Florence Scovel Shinn 681. "Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."--Ralph Waldo Emerson 682. "Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on." --Frederic Chopin 683. "People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them."--Brian Koslow 684. A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools a machine shop. -Robert Hughes 685. Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso 686. "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." -Naguib, Mahfouz 687. "The aim of life is self-development, to realize one's nature perfectly." --Oscar Wilde 688. Most people don't live. They exist. -Ruiz The Great 689. You should not step over dollars to pick-up pennies. -Ron Gonzales 690. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -Alan Kay 691. Every time I step up to bat, I step up to hit a home run. -Babe Ruth (The irony behind this statement is that to this day, Babe holds the record not only for the greatest number of home runs per at bat, but also the record for the greatest number of strike-outs per at bat. 692. If you love somebody set them free. It they come back, they are yours forever. If they don't they were never yours to begin with. -Indecent Proposal 693. The difference between the right word, and almost the right word, is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.--Mark Twain 694. Familiarity breeds contempt. -Anon Year 2003 695. Life is very short, and there's no time, for fussing and fighting my friend. -The Beatles (we can work it out) 696. You can't see things in other people that you don't posses within yourself. -Dr. Phil 697. Hell is truth seen to late. -Edward Wilson 698. The following aphorisms are written by Andy Rooney, a man who has the gift of saying so much with so few words.....(AH)
I've learned.... That the best classroom in the world is at
the feet of an elderly person. 699. The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.-Stanley Cubric 700."Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. And dance like no one is watching. " ---- ANON 701. April fools is for fools. -Jake3 702. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. -Garth Brooks 703. Experience is what happens when something unexpected comes up. 704. The future belongs to the creative. -H Ruiz 705. Beyond complexity lies simplicity. -Anon 706. Failures are instructive. -Anon 707. Being "on the move" doesn't always mean moving. 708.Good judgement comes from experience and experince comes from bad judgement. --Barry LePhter (sent in Jeff Briebart) 709. In all relationships people either contribute or contaminate. -Dr. Phil 710. Bad people treat kindness as a weakness. -Anon 711. Adversity either deepens or deadens you. -Friedrich Nietzsche 712. It is better to be alone with honesty, than to be lonely with a liar. -Anon 713. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. -Winston Churchill 714. Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.— Kahlil Gibran (Brad Elman) 715. "Who says worrying never does any good, most of the things I worry about never happen" --- Gordon B Hinckley (Bruce McMullen from Microsoft) 716. "Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love."- Clare Boothe Luce (Brad Elman) 717. "Change before you have to."--Jack Welch (Ashley Burkholder) 718. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Jill Soudyn) 719. Bessie Braddock to Sir Winston Churchill: "You're drunk!" His retort: "Yes, and you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober." 720. "I like to learn, but I do not always like to be taught" -Anon (Valliesto Bailey) 721. "Don't cry for things that can't cry for you" - Anon (Valliesto Bailey) 722. Time is a river without banks. -Anon 723. The reward for a good deed is to have done it. -Anon 724. If they will do it with you, they will do it to you. -Dr. Phil 725. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. -Anon 726. I believe more in respect than in love. -Ruiz 727. When you struggle, that's when you realize what you're made of, and that's when you realize what the people around you can do. You learn who you'd want to take with you to a war, and who you'd only want to take to lunch.~ Chamique Holdsclaw 728. "Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master." --Rev. Jesse Jackson 729. "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."--Jack Nicholson
730. "Nothing can bring you peace but
yourself."
732. A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it. -Jimmy Jones
733. "There is only one success - to be able to spend
your life in your own way."
734. "The ultimate of being successful is the luxury
of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do." 735. When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.'--Theodore Roosevelt
736. "I have come to realize that all my trouble with
living has come from fear and smallness within me."
737. "Life is a romantic business. It is painting a
picture, not doing a sum."--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
738. “Happiness is a way-station between too little
and too much.”
739. “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps
you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
740. “A silent threat to your credibility is making
assumptions. Most assumptions are inaccurate.” 741. So you think your job sucks? Well why didn't you say something-there's a support group for that-it's called everybody and we meet at the bar!!' Drew Carey 742. If they will do it in front of you, they will do it behind you. -Julie Guthrie 743. Maybe this world is another worlds hell. -Anon 745. Life is like a beach. Sometimes the tide is high, sometimes low. Sometimes the surf is ruff sometimes calm. Sometimes the water is freezing cold sometimes magnificently warm. Sometimes sand gets in your shoes and makes you feel uncomfortable, and then again sometimes sand feels great under you feet. The beach has an ebb and flow that always reminds me of life. Perhaps this is because we come from the water. The older I get the more a realize that life is a beach. -Jake3 6-6-2002 12:12PM 746. Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. -Italian Proverb 747. "Rhythm is something you either have or don't have but when you have it, you have it all over." -Elvis 748. Why he became a musician: "I wanted to be a singer because I didn't want to work." -Elvis 749. It is amazing how limited most people are. -Dora Jane Horton 750. "Don't underestimate the stupidity of mankind" -Anon 751. Is there more in the tank? I don't know. I think I'm using just about everything I have.” -- Lance Armstrong, after winning his fourth straight Tour de France. 752. There is no smoke without fire. -David Bowie 753. There are no problems, only solutions. -John Lennon (Watching the Wheels) 754. I'm the best there has ever been. -The Devil Went Down To Geogia by Charlie Daniels 755. Short people always think they are taller than they are and taller people always think they are shorter than they are. -Stephanie 756. Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.— Finley Peter Dunne (Brad Ellman) 757. A missed opportunity is a lifetime of regret. -Anon 758. Bringing a girl to a bar or club is like bringing sand to the beach. -Valiesto Bailey 759. Appeasement only makes the Aggressor more Aggressive-anon 760. Some of gods greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. -Garth Brooks 761. A man chases a woman until she catches him. -Valiesto Bailey 762. You make a decision through elimination. -Patty Sollenne 763. Family brings you home. -Maya Angelou 764. "It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world." -- Benjamin Franklin 765. "The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person."-- Vi Putnam 766. Castro played host to Carter at the Latin American School of Medicine, where the Cuban leader argued that the concept of democracy was born in ancient Athens, with fewer than 20,000 citizens ruling some 50,000 non-citizens and 80,000 slaves. Noting the vast poverty of most of the world's people, Castro compared Western-style democracies to an Athens in which a minority unjustly dominates the majority and said Cuba was striving for "a society with justice" and equal opportunity. He said his country was seeking "that dream of justice, of true liberty, of true democracy, of true human rights." 767. I bacame a photographer because I was did not want to work. Photography is simply puting the camera in an interesting position and pushing the button. -Harry Benton. 768. 'Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.'-Ansel Adams 769. Most people don't really learn their craft. -Jerry Lewis 770. Do what you love and the money will follow. -Oparah 771. Leadership comes to those who have prevailed. -Charlie Rose 772. To see is to think and to think is to see. -Richard Serra (Sculputor) 773. Art is purposefully useless. Richard Serra (Sculputor) 774. "Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally... You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course, it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore all around it; one discovery will lead to another, and before you know it you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought." -- Alexander Graham Bell 775. Never mistake motion for action. — Ernest Hemingway (Brad Ellman) 776. What you risk reveals what you value. -Jeanette Winterson 777. To be in chains is sometimes safer than to be free. -Orson Welles (The Trail) 778. One gets very dependent on ones advocate as time goes by. -Anthony Perkins (The Trail) 779. Those who can do. Those who can't teach. -George Bernard Shaw. 780. Sorry about the long letter. I did not have time to write a short one. -Pascal 781. The most powerful role model in any child's life is the same sex parent. -Dr. Phil 782. News is the first draft of history. -Phil Gram 783. What you most expect often doesn't happen and what you least often occurs. -Dan Rather 784. You can not change what you do not acknowledge. -Dr. Phil 785. All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. -William Shakespeare. 786. "Two things will never go out of style: spirituality and sex. They're the same thing. At the moment of supreme orgasm, even the atheist says, 'Oh, my God.' -Carlos Santana 787. The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. -Ralph Waldo Emerson 788. I guess I am lying to myself—It's just do I know I am? —Mick Jager (Song: Miss You) 789. Ultimately science comes down to the individual mind grappling with something mysterious. —GEORGE JOHNSON 790. Your mind is not for storing it is for thinking. —Anon 791. There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. -Morpheus 792. Time is always against us.-Morpheus 793. You don't just marry a woman. You marry a family. -Joan Girardot 794. The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage. The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors. -Warren Buffet (Fortune Magazine. November 22, 1999) 795. I would rather have an intelligent enemy than a stupid friend. -Antonia Banderas 796. The hardest thing is to begin. -Salma Hayak 797. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. -Dr. Phil 798. Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking. -Dean Martin (Standing on the Corner, watching all the girls go by) 799. A fool and his wealth are soon departed. -Proverb 800. The thing about life is that by the time you get old enough to understand what it is all about you die. -Ozzy Ozzborne 801. A gem cannot be polished without friction. -Anon 802. Even when you're good, you're 20 minutes away from returning to 'You suck.' ” — Ray Ratto on coaching in the Bay Area these days. 803. Never trust anyone who sells on commission. -Anon 804. Three of a kind makes a trend. -Anon 805. More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision. -Tony Soprano 806. You get what you ask for in this world. If you ask for nothing you get nothing. -Dr. Phil 807. Appeasement only makes the Aggressor more Aggressive. -Anon 808. "I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time." —Pablo Picasso 809. The circle is know complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Know I am the master. -Darth Vader 810. I would rather laugh than cry. -Julie Guthrie 811. "The difficult we do right away; the impossible takes slightly longer." -- Philo T. Farnsworth, Inventor of Television <http://farnovision.com> 812. The past is never dead. It's not even past. -William Faulkner (From Requiem for a Nun) 813. I have seen so far because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. -Sir Isaac Newton 814. Any successful platform needs a solid foundation. -Microsoft 815. Religion to me really means ethical systems and it comes down to a sense of values. -Michael Crichton 816. Women are not the sensitive sex. That is one of the great delusions of literature. Men are the true Romanticists. -Cary Grant (Indiscreet 1958) 817. The moment I meet an attractive women, I have to start pretending I've no desire to make love to her. -Cary Grant (North by Northwest) 818. Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. -JOHN FOSTER DULLES 819. That which is not just is not law. —William Floyd Garrison (1831 Boston) 820. There are two things you give your children. One is roots; the other is wings. —Anon 821. If you could see around a corner, you might not go around the corner. —Dr. Phil 822. Like a diamond from deep in the earth, art comes from deep within the artist. -Vincent Van Gough 823. Why do fools fall in love? How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? What is the meaning of it all? Questions without easy answers. —Anon 824. North Korea is a riddle wrapped in a mystery, cloaked in an enigma. -Sir Winston Churchill 825. The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world. Michael Angelo 826. Time is never wasted-It is misused. —Anon 827. Looks Can Kill. —Anon 828. As the slave said while whispering into the ear of the returning victorious Roman Emperor: "All glory is fleeting..." —Anon 829. You're only as good as your last product. —Anon 830. First rule of materialism: there's always something better. Second rule of materialism: only the strong should look for it. -Anon 831. God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas. —Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) 832. Since time eternal, Man has observed that the movements of the heavens obey unchanging laws, and these have been his basis for learning to measure time and establish his calendars. Watch making is thus born of astronomy. —Patek Philippe 833. "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." —Bertrand Russell 834. The essence of all education is self-discovery and self-control. When education helps an individual to discover his own powers and limitations and shows him how to get out of his heredity its largest and best possibilities, it will fulfill its real function; when children are taught not merely to know things but particularly to know themselves, not merely how to do things but especially how to compel themselves to do things, they may be said to be really educated. For this sort of education there is demanded rigorous discipline of the powers of observation, of the reason, and especially of the will. —Edwin Grant Conklin - American biologist 835. A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world. ~ Olive Schreiner (The Letters of Olive Schreiner) 836. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.~ Marie Curie 837. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." —Bill Cosby 838. Everybody has their dues in life to pay. —Areosmith 839. Education is freedom. —Oprah 840. There is a lot to be said for longevity. —Frank Sinatra (vis-à-vis Larry King) 841. The wisdom of the ages is a cultural excrement that stabilizes and fertilizes the lives of succeeding generations. —Al Hillix 842. If your life looks cloudy, maybe the windows of your soul need washing. —Anon 843. Excesses ultimately eventually are their own undoing, and that keeps me hopeful. —Paul Harver 844. The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things the most shameful and vile. —Plato 845. It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature. —Anonymous 846. It has always been a mystery to me why people spend so much time deliberately fooling themselves by creating alibis to cover their weaknesses. If used differently, this same time would be sufficient to cure the weakness, then no alibi would be needed. —Elbert Hubbard 847. Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision! —Napoleon Hill 848. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. —Pablo Picasso 849. A fearless man thrives on far horizons. —Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich) 850. Several years ago, I attended a lunchtime lecture presented by a professor from the Stanford Institute for the Qualitative Study of Society during a journalism conference. He cited a project whose aim was to find out whether people are happier now than they were 50 years ago. The project staff read people's diaries from the years in question, and what they found was interesting: People's level of happiness or unhappiness, however you choose to look at it, hasn't changed. What has changed is what they are unhappy about. Fifty years ago, people felt constrained and smothered by their close family and community ties. Today, conversely, people feel alienated and lonely because they no longer have those ties. —Amy Moon 851. That which is not just is not law. —William Floyd Garrison (1831 Boston) 852. If there is no solution there is no problem. —Dr. John Piel 853. There are two things you can give your children. One is roots, and the other is wings. —Anon 854. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with. —Anon 855. Every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints. —Mick Jaeger 856. If you could see around a corner, you might not go around the corner. —Dr. Phil 857. "Better to have people hate you for your high values than love you for your low standards". —Anon 858. Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. —Sir Henry Royce (Rolls Royce) 859. Everything is possible in science. —Charls Pinkus (inventor of the birth control pill. He said this to a naysayer who said it was not possible for him to create a birth control pill before he did.) 860. "There are no problems, only solutions !!!" 861. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. —Rabbi Julius Gordon 862. Life is a party. Let's get out and strut. —Mick Jaeger 863. "Never try; never know!" —Anon 864. "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." —Anon 865. The smallest changes can make the biggest difference. —Julie Guthrie 3-7-2003 866. Enjoy it while it lasts because if never does. —Anon 867. "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, its a wonder I can think at all." —Paul Simon 868. There is nothing more dangerous than the combination of a little knowledge with a lot of conviction. —Anon 869. "Where does he get all those wonderful toys" —Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Batman 870. "Enjoy what you can now, because things get pretty weird once it works." —James Gandolfini 871. "Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. " —Sir Winston Churchill (Brad Ellman) 872. Change is a challenge to the adventurous, an opportunity to the alert, a threat to the insecure. —Anon 873. No good deed goes unpunished. —Anon 874. Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. —W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence 875. If we are related we shall meet. —Emerson 876. Drink to me. —Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) last words 877. Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it. —Anon 878. Every gambler knows that the secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep. Cause every hand is a winner and every hand is a loser, and the best you can hope for is to die in your sleep. —Kenny Rogers (The Gambler) 879. I shouted out "Who killed the Kennedy's?" When after all it was you and me. —Mick Jaeger 880. One man's ceiling is another man's floor. —Anon 881. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is a king. —Minority Report 882. Anyone can stand out by looking like an idiot. —Hal Rebenstein 883. When someone trusts me I do my best work. —Vera Wang 884. To the victor belongs the spoils. —Anon 885. Self-righteousness has given way to situational ethics. —Anon 886. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. —Frank Lloyd Wright. 887. Buy a professional camera and you're a professional photographer, buy a flute and you own a flute. —Anon 888. "I am the only candidate running for mayor of San Francisco, all the other candidates are running against me." —Gavin Newsom 889. "Is there not one thing in your life worth losing everything for?" -Sean Connery (The Wind and the Lion.) 890. There are two sides to every story, and then there is the truth. —Anon 891. "Women, horses, cars, clothes. I did it all.........It's called living." —Cab Calloway (Brad Ellman) 892. That which we elect to surround ourselves with becomes the museum of our soul and archive of our experiences. -Thomas Jefferson 893. I've never been sorry I bought something I wanted when I wanted it. The older I get the more I realize that money is replaceable but time is not. —Anon 894. He who live outside his means will see his means diminish. He who lives within his means will see his means expand. —Mark Rado 895. You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. —George Horace Lorimer 896. That which does not kill you only makes you stronger. —Anon 897. There are ways of killing yourself without killing yourself. --John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever) 898. A man who does not spend time with his family can never be a real man. —Marlon Bando (Don Carleone in the Godfather) 899. "You know the world is going totally crazy when: the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the Americas cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance and Germany doesn't want to go to war" —Anon 900. "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." -Dale Carnegie (Brad Ellman) 901. It is better to be feared than loved. -Machiavelli 902. It's the little things that make a big difference. -Stew Weis 903. Don't give up. Keep going. There is always a chance that you will stumble over something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down. ~ Ann Landers 904. The English Philosopher Isaiah Berlin said that "There are two kinds of freedom: Freedom from and freedom to." For me the freedom from meetings, the freedom from the obligations of a bureaucracy that comes with running a large department, the freedom from all those things that seem to consume so much of my time every day--that's important, and then, the freedom to. The freedom to think, the freedom to explore avenues outside perhaps of modern art. To go beyond the boundaries that are defined by the job I have now into a broader understanding of visual arts and culture is something that I really welcome. --Kirk Varnedoe (Art Historian and Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the New York MOMA (1988-2003) and Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study) 905. What makes modern art modern? We often think of modern art as being something invented out of a void; that something almost dropped in from Mars. But, in fact if you look at some of the most profound innovations of modern art; the way it changed our notion of space, the way color was used, you'll see that what they involved is tinkering with a set of inherited conventions, a set of hierarchies of what was important and what wasn't important, and reshuffling the deck, inverting the hierarchies, changing the expectations, using the same conventions, but against each other in unexpected ways, and its that sense of playing with the rules of the game that make modern art experimental, that make it propose a different arrangement of the things that we know. --Kirk Varnedoe (Art Historian and Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the New York MOMA (1988-2003) and Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study) 906. I felt honestly that reducing stress in my life might be important in prolonging it. --Kirk Varnedoe (Art Historian and Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the New York MOMA (1988-2003) and Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study) 907. Terrorism is the deliberate killing of innocent people. It is murder turned into a political weapon. You target a population, you kill at random among that population aiming to force its political leaders or it government to make concessions, to surrender, to go away, to yield to your desires. —Dr. Michael Walzer (Political Philosopher at the Institute for Advanced Study) 908. A work of art is something that has constant meanings atatched to it, added to it, and going on for ever. —Dr. Oled Grabar 909. A car is the closest thing you will ever create to something that is alive. —Sir William Lion (founder of Jaguar) 910. You should not go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. —Anon 911. Freedom is not free. --Anon 912. “In the temple of science are many mansions… and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, it would be noticeably emptier but there would still be some men of both present and past times left inside….If the types we have just expelled were the only types there were, the temple would never have existed any more than one can have a wood consisting of nothing but creepers…those who have found favor with the angel…are somewhat odd, uncommunicative, solitary fellows, really less like each other than the hosts of the rejected. What has brought them to the temple…no single answer will cover…escape from everyday life; with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the still pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity. The passage is from a 1918 speech by a young German scientist named Albert Einstein. 913. Happiness isn't getting what you want; it's wanting what you get. --Garth Brooks 914. Happiness is a by-product of achievement. --Anon 915. Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. --Anon 916. Salvation, whatever that may be, will not be found amidst the external; it awaits within. -- Thanos 917. We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists. . .in the loved one, perfection. -- Sidney Poitier 918. We are not here to live our lives in the best way possible; to perform to the highest standards of excellence; to leave a legacy that will stand the test of time; to make this world a better place for our children and their children, and their children; to amaze other worldly life with our unassailable morality. We are here cause God needed a comedy channel. -- Young Liu 919. An unchallenged lie is a truth. --Dr. Phil 920. "The music industry is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs." --Hunter S. Thompson 921. -Stereotypes always have a grain of truth to them. --Anon 922. To grasp 20th Century art you ought to see side by side, everything Matisse and I were doing. --Pablo Picasso 923. I don't care about money. I like to spend money. I don't have respect for money. It is just paper to me. -Gianni Versace. 924. There surely is some price in life (you pay) for doing what you want to do. It can't all be roses and chocolate. -John Malkovic 925. Sadam Hussein was neither a good soldier or a good politician. He was a bully, and the way he ran his country was pathetic. It was like a bouncer owning and running the bar. --Todd Ehrlich (5-3-2003) 926. Einstein reffering to scientists: "The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshipper or lover. The daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart. “ 927. Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world. He then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it….He makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and serenity which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience….The supreme task…is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them….” --Albert Einstein 928. “Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people—what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 929. “Everything is an analogy” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 930. “Impatience is close to boredom but always results from one cause: an underestimation of the amount of time the job will take.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 931. “We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 932. “We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly. The time for real reunification of art and technology is really long overdue.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 933. “A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 934. “Classic Knowledge, the knowledge taught by the Church of Reason, is the engine and all the boxcars.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 935. “Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors. It’s this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 936. “He used the number zero as a starter. Zero, originally a Hindu number, was introduced to the West by the Arabs during the Middle Ages and was unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans. How was that? He wondered. Had nature so subtly hidden zero that all the Greeks and all the Romans—millions of them—couldn’t find it?” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 937. “…ancient logical construct known as a dilemma. A dilemma, which is Greek for “two premises,” has been likened to the front end of an angry and charging bull.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 938. “Philosophical mysticism, the idea that truth is indefinable and can be apprehended only by nonrational means, has been with us since the beginning of history.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 939. “Grades really cover up failure to teach.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 940. "No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going.” --Cromwell 941. “There’s an entire Branch of Philosophy concerned with the definition of quality, known as esthetics. Its question, What is meant by beautiful?, goes back to antiquity.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 942. “Quality was a cleavage term. What every intellectual analyst looks for. You take your analytic knife, put the point directly on the term Quality and just tap, not hard, gently, and the whole world splits, cleaves, right in two—hip and square, classic and romantic, technological and humanistic—and the split is clean. There’s no mess. No slop. No little items that could be one way or the other.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 943. “The truth knocks on the door and you say, “go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.” 944. “There’s nothing up ahead that’s any better than it is right here.” 945. “If all of human knowledge, everything that’s known, is believed to be an enormous hierarchic structure, then the high country of the mind is found at the uppermost reaches of this structure in the most general, the most abstract considerations of all. Few people travel here. There’s no real profit to be made from wandering through it, yet like this high country of the material world all around us, it has its own austere beauty that to some people make the hardships of traveling through it seem worthwhile.” 946. “…empiricist, one who believes all knowledge is derived exclusively from the senses.” 947. “…the separate worlds of classical and romantic understanding.” 948. “The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.” 949. “…the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism.” 950. “Socrates old goal of truth, in it’s ever-changing forms, as it’s revealed by the process of rationality.” 951. “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” 952. “You have to have faith in reason because there isn’t anything else.” 953. “To travel is better than to arrive” 954. “We live in entirely different time structures” 955. “People haven’t paid much attention to this before because the big concern has been with food, clothing and shelter for everyone and technology has provided these.” 956. “It’s analogous to the kind of hang-up Sir Issac Newton had when he wanted to solve problems of instantaneous rates of change. It was unreasonable in his time to think of anything changing within a zero amount of time. Yet it’s almost necessary mathematically to work with other zero qualities, such as points in space and time that no one thought were unreasonable at all, although there was no real difference. So what Newton did say, in effect, ‘We’re going to presume there’s such a thing as instantaneous change, and see if we can find ways of determining what it is in various applications.’ The result of this presumption is the branch of mathematics known as the calculus, which every engineer uses today. Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reason to handle technological ugliness. The trouble is that the expansion has to be made at the roots, not at the branches, and that’s what makes it hard to see.” 957. “We’re living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experiences.” 958. “The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus’ discovery of a new world. It just shook people up.” 959. “You’ve never had to understand it really. It’s always been completely bankrupt with regard to abstract art. Nonrepresentative art is one of the root experiences I’m talking about. Some people still condemn it because it doesn’t make ‘sense.’” 960. “The rhetoricians of ancient Greece were the first teachers in the history of the Western world.” 961. “Then we say perfunctory things about how good it’s all been and how we’ll see each other soon, and this is suddenly very sad to have to talk like this—like casual acquaintances.” 962. “It had a certain syrup, but it didn’t pour.” --Gertrude Stein 963. “Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.” 964. “To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it’s just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to appear today, unidentified, with the same message he spoke many years ago, his mental stability would be challenged.” 965. “The more you look the more you see.” 966. Eliminate the whole degree-and-grading system and then you’ll get real education. 967. “a student completely conditioned to work for a grade rather than for the knowledge the grade was supposed to represent.” 968. “But what had happened? The student, with no hard feelings on anybody’s part, would have flunked himself out. Good! This is what should have happened. He wasn’t there for a real education in the first place and had no real business there at all. A large amount of money and effort had been saved and there would be no stigma of failure and ruin to haunt him the rest of his life. No bridges had been burned. The student’s biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, if you don’t whip me, I won’t work. He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work. And the cart of civilization, which he supposedly was being trained to pull, was just going to have to creak along a little slower without him. 969. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” –Paul Valery 970. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." -Sir Isaac Newton 971. "To achieve....you have to know what you are doing, and that's real power."- Ayn Rand (Brad Ellman) 972. What Las Vegas has always been is bringing out the kid in the adult, not asking adults to bring their kids. -- Alan Feldman, MGM Mirage spokesman 973. Home is where the worries of the outside world meet their timely demise. -Drexel Heritage 974. "He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist." --St. Francis of Assisi 975. "To sin in silence, when one should speak, makes cowards out of men" - JFK? 976. People do what works. --Dr. Phil 977. HOW TO STAY YOUNG 1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her. 2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. 3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. " An idle mind is the devil's workshop," And the devil's name is Alzheimer's. 4. Enjoy the simple things. 5.. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. 6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive. 7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. 8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. 9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is. 10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. 978. There are only two kinds of plans: Plans that might work and plans that won't work. Plans don't win wars. The only thing that wins them is the execution. General Wesley Clark. 979. Pressure is one of the biggest drugs of all. --Dominique Miller 980. Don't piss down my my back and tell me its raining. --The outlaw Josey Wales (Visa vis Todd Patterson) 981. Seat belts or body bags. One size fits all. Remember. Or be remembered. --SF MUNI Add 982. True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld~ 983. Impress your friends and amaze your enemies. --Joe Dimaio 984. She believes in me. -Sammy Davis Jr. 985. Life is easier when you don't have too many choices...--Anon 986. "God may have created man before woman but there is always a rough draft before the masterpiece." ~ author unknown 987. "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -Pablo Picasso. 988. Too much of a good thing is wonderful. -Mae West 989. Everyone likes a party, but no one wants to clean. --Keb Mo. 990. No man should get married before 30. By then he should know better. -Alvin Ehrlich 991. Another bus comes along every 10 minutes. --Alvin Ehrlich 992. Never strike a king unless you kill him. -Shakespeare 993. It is much easier to become a father than to be one. ~ Kent Nerburn (Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man) 994. We will improve the human condition in lasting ways by creating innovative technologies that revolutionize the sciences.-Anon 995. We don't think our way into a new life; we live our way into a new kind of thinking. -- Francis Rohr 996. Failure is the greatest teacher. --Charlie Rose 997. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." - Samuel Butler 998. True friends are like diamonds precious but rare . False friends are like leaves found everywhere. 999. Change is a challenge to the adventurous, an opportunity to the alert, a threat to the insecure. 1000. There is no straight line to a dream.~ Jack Welch 1001. "I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything. "I will try" has performed miracles.~ George P. Burnham 1002. The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.~ Euripides 1003. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. You may enjoy doing it so much that you went to do it again. ~ Ross Perot 1004. The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. - Michael Gerber 1005. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ~ Henry Ford 1006. Be as an cup, and the universe flows into you. Be as an arrow, and the universe retreats from you.~ Zen Proverb 1007. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975) 1008. Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.~ G. Weatherly 1009. The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain--he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better tomaster one mountain than a thousand foothills. ~ William Arthur Ward 1010. Be as upbeat as you can be. The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude. ~ John DePasquale 1011. The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. 1012. He is the greatest leader who gets the people to do the greatest things. - Ronald Reagan 1013. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from the shore.~ Dale Carnegie 1014. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill 1015. The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 1016. The only thing more dangerous than the line being crossed is the cop who will cross it.--Anon 1017. Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.--Anon 1018. There is none so blind as those who will not see.--Moody Blues 1019. "Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why its dark"--Anon 1020. "Geeking" is for those who always try to imagine how technology might make life better than it is today. Personally it brings me great joy! --Anon 1021. Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults. --Benjamin Franklin 1022. The greatest gift that man can give anyone is freedom from fear. Kathryn Hepburn. 1023. Moderate your desire of victory over your enemy, and be pleased with the one over yourself.--Benjamin Franklin 1024. Why is it the people who need the most help won't take it. --A river runs through it. 1025. Haste makes waste. --Benjamin Franklin 1026. Little strokes fell great oaks. --Benjamin Franklin 1027. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. --Benjamin Franklin 1028. Desperation is the mother of courage. --Alec Baldwin 1029. Jealousy is based on a low sense of self esteem.--Annie Lenox 1030. I would rather have it said of me that I lived usefully than I died wealthy. Benjamin Franklin 1031. A good example is the best sermon. --Benjamin Franklin 1032. There's more old drunkards than old doctors. God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. --Benjamin Franklin 1033. Education is painful...we mostly learn from our mistakes. --Alec Baldwin 1034. Everything is a test. -Al Pacino 1035. They that will not be counseled, cannot he helped. --Benjamin Franklin 1036. Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. --Benjamin Franklin 1037. For age and want save while you may. No morning sun lasts a whole day. --Benjamin Franklin 1038. When the well's dry we know the worth of water. --Benjamin Franklin 1039. God helps them that help themselves. --Benjamin Franklin 1040. If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.~ Lou Holtz 1041. At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don't care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all. ~ Jock Falkson 1042. Unfortunately, in both journalism and academe, there is a deeply ingrained tendency to think in terms of highly segmented, narrow areas of expertise, which ignores the fact that the real world is not divided up into such neat little beats and that the boundaries between domestic, international, political and technological affairs are all collapsing. --Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree 1999 1043. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.~ Buddha 1044. "The Bible teaches to love your neighbor, and Kama-Sutra explains how." --Anon 1045. All lessons are repeated until learned.--Anon 1046. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.- Albert Camus 1047. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.--John Stewart Mill 1048. "Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Sir Winston Churchill 1049. "Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."-Kahlil Gibran 1050. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! -Rudyard Kipling 1051. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.—Anon 1052. Life is sexually transmitted.—Anon 1053. Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.—Anon 1054. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.—Anon 1055. In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.—Anon 1056. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.—Anon 1057. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1058. "When you close your eyes, what you have in your heart is all that you have. -91 year old Italian woman 1059. Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1060. The ugly may be beautiful, the pretty never.--anon 1061. Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. --Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1062. The first man gets the oyster, the second on gets the shell. 1063. Everything is a tragedy to the man who feels and a comedy to the man who thinks!--Anon 1064. “God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.”--Robin Williams 1065. "Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind."--Ralph Waldo Emerson 1066. There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.--Ella Wheller Wilcox 1067. Listen, and it's amazing what you will hear. --miradu 1068. "It's a very groovy time."--Austin Powers 1069. A successful display has presence, whether a single object, a simple grouping or a full collection. It stops the eye and captures the imagination. --From Pottery Barn Living Rooms. 1070. He who takes offence where none was intended is a fool ... and he who takes offence where it was intended is usually a fool.--Gordon B Hinckley 1071. For everything we miss we gain something else, and for everything we gain we miss something else. Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1072. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. ~ Jim Rohn 1073. The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains. ~ John Muir 1075. "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." --Ben Franklin 1076. I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. --Anon 1077. Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge. --Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 1078. To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway. -Anon 1079. What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ~ Doris Lessing 1080. Life is too important to take seriously. --anon 1081. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. --Anon 1082. I do not want to die until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.~ Kathe Kollwitz 1083. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -Anon 1084. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. -Anon 1085. The gripping story of Galileo's trial before the Roman Inquisition is one of the defining narratives of Western civilization. The spectacle of the aging astronomer being forced, under the threat of torture, to recant his belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun has seemed to many to mark the moment when the Age of Faith gave way to the Age of Reason and to embody the Catholic Church's enduring hostility to unfettered inquiry and expression. --MICHAEL MASSING 1086. Better to spend a little more than you planned and get what you really want than to spend a little less than you should- and lose everything." --Anon 1087. To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach for another is to risk involvement. To expose your feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To believe is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is free. -Anon 1088. [The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me. --Marlene Dietrich 1089. The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty. --Remy de Gourmont 1090. I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1091. The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. --Virginia Woolf 1092. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. --Albert Einstein 1093. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. --Ralph Waldo Emerson 1094. Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. -- Roy R. Gilson 1095. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1096. The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
--Havelock Ellis ["Impressions and Comments" (1914)] 1098. If eyes were made for seeing, then Beauty is it's own excuse for being. --Ralph Waldo Emerson 1099. Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. --Sophia Loren 1100. We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. --Ralph Waldo Emerson 1101. Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. --Ralph Waldo Emerson 1102. Truly beautiful people are freaks of nature. --Eleanor Roosevelt. 1103. Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.--Oliver Wendell Holmes 1104. Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. --John Pfeiffer 1105. The best things in life are not free but priceless. --Benjamin Lichtenberg 1106. Life is the greatest bargain—we get it for nothing. --Yiddish proverb 1107. Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. --Stephen Covey 1108. Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. --Ralph Waldo Emerson 1109. In this culture money is everything. Money is God. Money is our religion and it determines everything we do. Marlon Brando 1110. Every man dies, not every man really lives. Mel Gibson. 1111. One passion at a time. --ChiChing 1112. ... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. --Pearl S. Buck 1113. All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. --J.R.R. Tolkein 1114. It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. --Charles Kuralt 1115. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. --Henri Bergson 1116. We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. --Anais Nin 1117. "Art is an idea which has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which the expression is made possible........Design is the foundation of all the arts. " -Paul Rand 1118. Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. --Apple Computers. 1119. "I'm a total Einsteinian with respect to the ultimate goal of science. Physicists should be able to predict all the parameters of nature, they're not adjustable." --Dr. David Gross, director of the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, Calif. 1120. I would rather change the world than get credit for changing the world. -Michael Butler 1121. Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.--Napoleon Bonaparte 1122. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Henry David Thoreau 1123. He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known far and wide as a smart-ass --Preston's Postulate 1124. To be creative, relax and let your mind go to work, otherwise the result is either a copy of something you did before or reads like an army manual. -Kenneth H. Gordon, Jr. 1125. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. -Basho 1126. Life is tying things to see if they work. -Ray Bradbury 1127. One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. -G. K. Chesterton 1128. The creation of thousand forests is in one acorn. -Ralph Waldo Emerson 1129. In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art. - E. M. Forster 1130. What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. - Dean William R. Inge 1131. You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. - Steve Jobs 1132. A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. -Nikos Kazantzakis 1133. An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. - Dr. Edwin Land 1134. The obvious is always least understood. - Prince Metternich 1135. Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Aphorisms) 1136. Doodling is the brooding of the mind. - Saul Steinberg 1137. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. - Publilius Syrus 1138. The art of creation is older than the art of killing. - Andrei Voznesensky 1139. Every really new idea looks crazy at first. - Alfred North Whitehead 1140. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when you grow up. -Pablo Picasso 1141. Goals are dreams with deadlines. -Diana Scharf Hunt 1142. If you can¹t make a mistake, you can¹t make anything. -Marva Collins 1143. If an idea is good it will survive defeat. It may even survive victory. -Steven Vincent Benet 1144. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one we have. -Alain 1145. Change cannot be avoided...Change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity. -Keshavan Nair 1146. Imagination is our strongest tool--the ability to see ordinary things in new ways. -Keith Herrmann 1147. To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. -Rosabeth Moss Kanter 1148. The impossible is often the untried. -Jim Goodwin 1149. An idea is salvation by imagination. -Frank Lloyd Wright 1150. When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. -Leo Burnett 1151. One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. -Henry Miller 1152. It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overleap them. -Metternich 1153. The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. -Will Rogers 1154. Success comes from taking the hand you were dealt and using it to the very best of your ability. -Ty Boyd 1155. If you have a skeleton in your closet, take it out and dance with it. -Carolyn MacKenzie 1156. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. --Anon 1157. The best way to predict the future...is to create it. --Anon 1158. You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. --Anon 1159. A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension. --Anon 1160. The Essence of Imagination - What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Imagination is having the vision to see what is just below the surface; to picture that which is essential, but invisible to the eye. --Anon 1161. With each degree of separation comes a degree of uncertainty. -Ban Company 1162. Everybody asks why I started at the end and worked back to the beginning and worked back to the beginning. The reason is simple; I could not understand the beginning until I reached the end. --White Oleander 1163. Not to know what happened before you were born is to be forever a child. --The Emperors Club 1164. Willful ignorance is intolerable.--The Emperors Club 1165. Stereotypes always have a grain of truth to them. --Kirk Varnedoe 1166. A man's character is his fate (or destiny). --The Emperors Club 1167. The end depends upon the beginning. --The Emperors Club 1168. It is the kind of house you would like to wake up in on Christmas morning. --Michael Douglas (Wonderboys) 1169. If something might work I'll try it. --James Watson (founder of D.N.A.)
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