July 2010

Anwar el-Sadat Quotations

-I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. Anwar el-Sadat

E. V. Lucas Quotations

-I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. E. V. Lucas

Robert W. Sarnoff Quotations

-Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. Robert W. Sarnoff

Aaron Copland Quotations

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. Aaron Copland

Jesse Stuart Quotations

-Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. Jesse Stuart

George McDonald Quotations

-Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. George McDonald

Charles DuBois Quotations

-The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles DuBois

Russell Baker Quotations

-People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. -The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require [...]

Ralph Waldo Trine Quotations

-There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Ralph Waldo Trine

Stanley Kunitz Quotations

-What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. Stanley Kunitz