...a dozen IDEAS
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
– John Steinbeck, Author (1902-68)
...you will still have
A few cobras in your home will soon clear it of rats and mice. Of course, you will still have the cobras.
-Will Cuppy, journalist (1884-1949)
fear Vs. faith
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
- John Paul Jones
- John Paul Jones
great & less
Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less.
-Jean de La Bruyere, essayist and moralist (1645-1696)
Together achieves more...
"Little things seem like nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air."
~ Georges Bernanos
..done with the excuse
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
-Russell Baker, columnist and author (1925-2019)
No yesterdays...
When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
-William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)
Scurvy to pervy
Lack of Vitamin C leads to scurvy ...
Lack of confidence may make you nervy.
But who would have guessed
Or has ever assessed
How a nice normal guy becomes pervy!
-Bindy Bitterman, Chicago, Illinois
Lack of confidence may make you nervy.
But who would have guessed
Or has ever assessed
How a nice normal guy becomes pervy!
-Bindy Bitterman, Chicago, Illinois
Social creatures...
We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
-Karl Popper, philosopher and professor (1902-1994)
...wild beast
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
-Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
...should be creating
The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.
-Jean Piaget, psychologist (1896-1980)
Not a fact
No amount of belief makes something a fact.
- James Randi, magician and skeptic (b. 7 Aug 1928)
Criticism made on the habits
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
-Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1819-1891)
Perfection.... accurate
The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
-Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, moralist and essayist (1715-1747)
world is changed by...
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
-P.D. James, novelist (1920-2014)
...tie it to a goal
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things"
- Albert Einstein
...like playing
"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on"
- Samuel Butler
- Samuel Butler
To grow cruel...
There are few uglier traits than this tendency -- witnessed in men no worse than their neighbors -- to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864)
..best in others
The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
-Felix Adler, professor, lecturer, and reformer (1851-1933)
..moving forward together
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself"
- Henry Ford
...working for it
"I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it."
-Estée Lauder
small Vs. Great Minds
"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
the most difficult risk...
"It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."
- Walter Anderson
- Walter Anderson
....individual liberty
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
-Kathleen Norris, novelist and columnist (1880-1966)
Attractive Vs. Satisfaction
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
mind copulates
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
-Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
...are capable of
"There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
- Nelson Mandela, Nobel Prize winner
Find & Lose Yourself
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
- Mahatma Gandhi, Leader of Indian Nationalism
Look & See...
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
- Henry David Thoreau, author
Know & do better...
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
- Maya Angelou, author and poet
Masterpiece
"Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece."
- John Wooden, legendary basketball coach
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