8.29.2011
the labor of thinking
"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." - Thomas Edison
a scientist looking
"I believe that a scientist looking at non-scientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy." - Richard Feynman
Constantly making exciting discoveries
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." - A. A. Milne
The significant problems we have
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." - Albert Einstein
The very first law
"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague." - Bill Cosby
what we are is what we want
"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness." - Malcolm Forbes
8.28.2011
the little things are
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." - Arthur Conan Doyle
do things systematically
"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy." - Hesiod
The most important work
"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes." - Harold B. Lee
If you have made mistakes
"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down." - Mary Pickford
The chief lesson I have learned
"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust." - Henry L. Stimson
Read not to contradict
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." - Sir Francis Bacon
Nothing changes your opinion
"Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his." - Franklin P. Jones
It is better to know
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber
If I knew I was going to live this long
"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." - Mickey Mantle
Laughing at our mistakes
"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it." - Cullen Hightower
8.24.2011
The most savage controversies
"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." - Bertrand Russell
dazzle them with brilliance
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W. C. Fields
A good listener
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something." - Wilson Mizner
Follow your bliss
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." - Joseph Campbell
Give to every human
"Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself." - Robert Green Ingersoll
always in search
"We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought." - Etty Hillesum
What saves a man
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
8.22.2011
you finally understand how
"Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you." - Daniel Raeburn
To do anything in this world worth doing
"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can." - Sydney Smith
The painting has a life of its own
"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through." - Jackson Pollock
Anyone can be an idealist
"Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle, i.e. being human." - Hugh Macleod
Slow down and enjoy life
"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why." - Eddie Cantor
giving up on being perfect
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." - Anna Quindlen
One never knows
"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it." - Henry Moore
8.18.2011
Endless forgiveness
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov
They can change the world
"One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world." - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
The time is now
"The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for." - Dan Millman
a way of reaching back
"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you." - A. L. Kitselman
a little boy is concerned
"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing." - Eric Berne
Dreams that do come true
"Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't." - Brett Butler
vices of leisure
"Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy." - Seneca
most of the time
"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time." - Robert Half
the life you never had
"It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes." - Terri Minsky
Be lost
"Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb." - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Curiously unfitted
"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth." - Joseph Conrad
8.12.2011
Keep children home
"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires." - Dorothy Parker
What people do want
"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." - Clive Barnes
A man's feet
"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world." - George Santayana
Everything has been figured out
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre
Some comfort in dying
"There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children." - Ann Radcliffe
A beauty cold and austere
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." - Bertrand Russell
In three words
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
Gathered over time
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." - Ansel Adams
8.11.2011
As I get older
"As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things." - Po Bronson
Success is a journey
"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." - Arthur Ashe
Holding onto anger
"Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned." - Buddha
Happily ever after
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." - Margaret Bonnano
No formula for success
"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." - Arthur Rubinstein
8.09.2011
Each person has an ideal
"Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement." - Colby Dorr Dam
I am not one of those
"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts." - Mark Twain
Friendship I would not swap for
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." - Thomas A. Edison
Store the mind
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." - Alec Bourne
The high cost of living
"What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." - Doug Larson
We secure our friends
"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them." - Thucydides
A place that remains unchanged
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela
Truth is tough
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
8.07.2011
Discover new lands
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - Andre Gide
Success is not the result
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Reggie Leach
Nobody so irritating
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." - Don Herold
The key is to keep
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus
Make up your mind
"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation." - Thomas H. Huxley
Enough
"Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable." - John Mankiewicz
8.01.2011
Something strange
"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day." - John A. Wheeler
Changing the world
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
Three musts
"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." - Albert Ellis
The greatest pleasure
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
You are today
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Lane Allen
Success
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much." - Bessie A. Stanley
He who postpones
"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." - Horace
About life
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." - W. Somerset Maugham
Smell the flowers
"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." - Herbert Rappaport
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