May 2007

Okakura Kakuzo

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Okakura Kakuzo

Marie Curie Quotations

-Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. -I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. -Life is not easy for any of us. [...]

John Wanamaker

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half. John Wanamaker

Albert Szent–Gyorgyi de Nagyraolt Quotations

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent–Gyorgyi de Nagyraolt

Bette Davis Quotations

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. Bette Davis

Anna Lappe Quotations

-Hope doesn’t come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It’s simply a choice to take action. -Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want. Anna Lappe

Julie Morgenstern Quotations

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us! Julie Morgenstern

Knute Rockne

One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it. Knute Rockne

Jane Austen Quotations

-Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. -I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. -Where so many hours have been spent [...]

Anne Michaels Quotations

-Hold a book in your hand and you’re a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. Anne Michaels

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

-The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. -Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. -It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. -Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive [...]

Homer Simpson

Kids, just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I’m not listening. Homer Simpson

Vernon Howard Quotations

-You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. -A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them. -You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey… Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at [...]

Joseph Stalin Quotations

-A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin

Chuang Tse

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Chuang Tse

Sir Richard Francis Burton Quotations

-Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. Sir Richard Francis Burton

H. Jackson Browne Quotations

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. H. Jackson Browne

Thomas Bailey Quotations

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. Thomas Bailey

Thomas Paine Quotations

-I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. -A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives [...]

Moshe Dayan

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. Moshe Dayan

Willie Shoemaker

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. Willie Shoemaker

Dave Meurer

A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. Dave Meurer

Edgar Watson Howe Quotations

-Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. -If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old. -Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. -A poem is no place for an idea. -Many a man is [...]

John Dryden Quotations

-A thing well said will be wit in all languages. -Happy the man Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine The joys I have possessed, [...]

Carl Linnaeus Quotations

No science in the world is more elevated, more necessary and more useful than economics. Carl Linnaeus

Jean Paul Getty Quotations

-Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train – Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still? -There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. -Money is [...]

Margaret Cho Quotations

-I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself. -Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. -Success is meaningless if you can’t sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against [...]

Marcel Archard

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. Marcel Archard

Isaac Asimov Quotations

-Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right. -Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. -I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Isaac Asimov

Phil Jackson

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing. Phil Jackson

Melanie Phillips

The big issue of our times is surely not the absence of a set of common values in a multicultural society. It is rather a battle between people who believe in something and those who believe in nothing: not in knowledge; not in authority, not in moral absolutes and, above all, not in themselves. Melanie [...]

Solon Quotations

-Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. Solon

Edith Wharton Quotations

-If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. -There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you [...]

Richard Milhous Nixon Quotations

-Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. -When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. Richard Milhous Nixon

Wendell Jones

You have freedom of choice, but not freedom from choice. Wendell Jones

Ana M Guzman

I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future. Ana M Guzman

Stewart L. Udall

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. Stewart L. Udall

Og Mandino Quotations

-You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator experimenting in the laboratory of life; You were made with a purpose. -I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. -Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for [...]

Booker T. Washington Quotations

-I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. -Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which [...]

George A. Knight Quotations

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. George A. Knight

Michael Crichton

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had. Michael Crichton

Spanish Proverbs

-If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself. Spanish Proverbs

Don Herold

-The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. -There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. Don Herold

Hugh B. Brown Quotations

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character. Hugh B. Brown

James Madison Quotations

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. James Madison

Rene Descartes Quotations

-The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. -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. -One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has [...]

Francis Ford Coppola Quotations

You don’t have to specialize – do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form. Francis Ford Coppola

Helen Rowland Quotations

-Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her–when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her? Helen Rowland

Audrey Hepburn

-Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. -I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. -Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do [...]

J.K. Rowling Quotations

-It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. -You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve. J.K. Rowling

B. Quilliam

There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it’s up to you to draw it. B. Quilliam

Charles Bukowski Quotations

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting. Charles Bukowski

Homer Quotations

-I detest the man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another. -A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth – and the season of spring comes on. So of men one [...]

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle. Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Hugh Macleod Quotations

-Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human. -Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit [...]

Bernadette Devlin

To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin

Mike Ditka

Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal. Mike Ditka

Charles Victor Cherbuliez Quotations

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. Charles Victor Cherbuliez

Pierre Wack Quotations

I had the feeling of hunting in a pack of wolves, being the eyes of the pack, and sending signals back to the rest. Now if you see something serious, and the pack doesn’t notice it, you’d better find out — are you in front? Pierre Wack

Sydney J. Harris Quotations

-The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time. -Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. -The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats [...]

Ambrose Bierce Quotations

-Man: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. -Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know. Ambrose Bierce

Felix E. Schelling

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. Felix E. Schelling

U.G. Krishnamurti Quotations

-Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is ‘you’. There is nothing there inside you other than that. U.G. Krishnamurti

William J.H. Boetcker

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. William J.H. Boetcker

Oscar Levant Quotations

-Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. -Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember. -There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. -The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. -It’s not what [...]

Crosby, Stills and Nash Quotations

Teach Your Children You, who are on the road, Must have a code that you can live by. And so, become yourself, Because the past is just a good bye. Teach your children well, Their father’s hell did slowly go by. And feed them on your dreams, The one they picks, the one you’ll know [...]

Harry S. Truman Quotations

-It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours. -The buck stops here. -A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. -How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? [...]

Claude Swanson Quotations

-When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. Claude Swanson

Meryl Streep

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. Meryl Streep

Andrew Carnegie

Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory. Andrew Carnegie

Seth Godin Quotations

Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t. Seth Godin

Heinrich Heine

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. Heinrich Heine

Bob Hope

If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play at it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf. Bob Hope

Tom Stoppard Quotations

-I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. -The days of the digital watch are numbered. -We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. Tom Stoppard

Walter Schirra Quotations

Mostly it’s lousy out there. It’s a hostile environment, and it’s trying to kill you. You sit in a flying Thermos bottle. Walter Schirra

William Goldman Quotations

Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. William Goldman