-The probability that the first choice you make is right for you is roughly one in a million. If you decide that your first choice was the right one, chances are you are just plain lazy.
-Organizations, unless challenged, tend … Read the rest
Edwin Schlossberg Quotations
-The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
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Barbara Billingsley Quotations
-Some people think she was weakish … but I don’t. She was the love in that family. She set a good example for what a wife could be.
-Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last … Read the rest
Lucille Ball Quotations
-The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
-Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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Alberto Manguel Quotations
-In the winter the beauty is even stronger. The Prairies eliminate the obviousness of a horizon and leave the traveller with the magnificence of an infinite blank page, land blending with sky. I have never understood ‘snow’ to be a … Read the rest
Charles Baudelaire Quotations
-Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered… a childhood now equipped for self-expression with an adult’s capacities.
-Voici venir les temps où vibrant sur sa tige
Chaque fleur s’évapore ainsi qu’un encensoir;
Les sons et les parfums tournent … Read the rest
Laura Schlessinger Quotations
-Don’t worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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William Morris Quotations
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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Aesop Quotations
-We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
-The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
-Put your shoulder to the wheel.
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Benjamin Stolberg
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
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Peter De Vries Quotations
-I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.
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Charles Darwin Quotations
-A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
-A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
-Animals, whom we have made our slaves, … Read the rest
Dan Fogelberg Quotations
-Travel the path of the heart instead of the path of convenience.
-The higher you climb,
The more that you see.
The more that you see,
The less that you know.
The less that you know,
The more that you … Read the rest
John Blake Quotations
-The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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Blue Cliff Record
-Even to speak the word Buddha is dragging it in the mud soaking wet; Even to say the word Zen is a total embarrassment.
-Give up remembrance–What end is there to pure wind circling the earth?
-The universe contracts, the … Read the rest
Dag Hammarskjöld
-The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
-When the morning’s freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles quiver under the strain, the … Read the rest
Phillips Brooks Quotations
-A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
-Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we … Read the rest
R. D. Hitchcock Quotations
-The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
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Paul Dirac
-In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.
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Brian Adams Quotations
-Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.… Read the rest
James Joyce Quotations
-A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Cormac McCarthy Quotations
-I don’t know why I started writing. I don’t know why anybody does it. Maybe they’re bored, or failures at something else.
-I felt early on I wasn’t going to be a respectable citizen.
-We were considered rich because all … Read the rest
Beryl Markham
-That’s what makes death so hard-unsatisfied curiosity.
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P. D. James Quotations
-What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.
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Kurt Herbert Alder Quotations
-Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right.
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Solon Quotations
-Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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R. Buckminster Fuller Quotations
-All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniused by grownups. (See Einstein)
-Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
-Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, … Read the rest
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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Julius Erving
Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.
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Charles Ghigna Quotations
-A poem is a little path
That leads you through the trees.
It takes you to the cliffs and shores,
To anywhere you please.
Follow it and trust your way
With mind and heart as one,
And when the journey’s … Read the rest
Hunter S. Thompson Quotations
-When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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John Cage Quotations
-The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
-I can’t understand why people are frightened of new … Read the rest
François Marie Arouet Voltaire Quotations
-The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.
-Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
-La Nature a … Read the rest
P.J. O’Rourke Quotations
-When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
-To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go … Read the rest
Bertrand Russell Quotations
-Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
-Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
-Most men would rather die, than think. Many do.
-Our great democracies still … Read the rest
Ian McEwan Quotations
When this civilization falls, when the Romans, whoever they are this time round, have finally left and the new dark ages begin, this will be one of the first luxuries to go. The old folk crouching by their peat fires … Read the rest
Deepak Chopra
-This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
-The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
-When you live your … Read the rest
Ernest Hemingway Quotations
-F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The rich are different from you and me.”
Ernest Hemingway: “Yes, they have more money.”
-Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-All good books are alike in that they are truer than if … Read the rest
Barack Obama Quotations
-A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
-Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible … Read the rest
Bill Clinton Quotes
Every time Nelson Mandela walks into a room we all feel a little bigger, we all want to stand up, we all want to cheer, because we would like to be him on our best day.
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Paul “Bear” Bryant Quotations
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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Aldous Huxley Quotations
-The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, … Read the rest
Horace Mann Quotations
-Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
-Be ashamed to die until … Read the rest
Robert Pante Quotations
-If you look good and dress well, you don’t need a purpose in life.
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Cecil Baxter Quotations
-You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
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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.
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Ronnie D. Laing Quotations
-We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
-Creative people who can’t help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, … Read the rest
Brendan Behan Quotations
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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Marie Howe Quotations
I have begun,
when I’m weary and can’t decide an answer to a bewildering question
to ask my dead friends for their opinion
and the answer is often immediate and clear.
Should I take the job? Move to the city? … Read the rest
Gerry Spence Quotations
-I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief.
-To freely bloom – that is my definition of success.
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Wei Wu Wei
-Destroy ‘the ego’, hound it, beat it, snub it, tell it where it gets off? Great fun, no doubt, but where is it? Must you not find it first? Isn’t there a word about catching your goose before you can … Read the rest
Nido Qubein Quotations
-Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
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Anna Quindlen Quotations
-A finished person is a boring person.
-Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
-The world is full of women blindsided by … Read the rest
Frances Willard Quotations
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
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Lawrence Kaplow Quotations
-Perseverance does not equal worthiness.
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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.
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Robert Frost Quotations
-My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really … Read the rest
A. E. Housman Quotations
-Loveliest of trees the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now of my three score years and ten,
Twenty will not come again.
And take from seventy … Read the rest
Rebecca West Quotations
-Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
-Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
-It’s the soul’s duty … Read the rest
Matthew
Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
For every one that asketh, receiveth;
and he that seeketh, findeth;
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.… Read the rest
Kent M. Keith
The Paradoxical Commandments
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true … Read the rest
Doc Searls Quotations
-We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
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Saint Augustine of Hippo Quotations
-A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.
-People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of … Read the rest
Gregg Levoy
-When you’re on the right path, the universe winks and nods at you from time to time, to let you know.
-Passion is what we are most deeply curious about, most hungry for, will most hate to lose in life. … Read the rest
Alfred Adler Quotations
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them
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Ron Foreman Quotations
-Sometimes life gives us what we need instead of what we want.
-Nobody knows what’s right for you but you, although some people may think they do. Listen to what they say and then make your decision according to what … Read the rest
Allen Klein Quotations
-The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.
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Leon Kass Quotations
-The pursuit of perfect bodies and further life extension will deflect us from realizing more fully the aspirations to which our lives naturally point, from living well rather than merely staying alive.
-The finitude of human life is a blessing … Read the rest
Trey Parker and Matt Stone Quotations
-I love life…Yeah, I’m sad, but at the same time, I’m really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It’s like…It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel … Read the rest
Robert Southey Quotations
-If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
-What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend … Read the rest
Herbert Rappaport Quotations
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
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H. Jackson Browne Quotations
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
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Baltasar Gracian Quotations
-The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
-All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has … Read the rest
Fritz Perls
-I don’t want to be saved, I want to be spent.
-The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he’s playing.
-I am not in this world to live up to other … Read the rest
Napoleon Hill Quotations
-A goal is a dream with a deadline.
-Action is the real measure of intelligence.
-All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
-All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the … Read the rest
Paul Harvey Quotations
-In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
-I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
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Helen Keller Quotations
-Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
-Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience … Read the rest
Ronald L. Graham Quotations
-Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in … Read the rest
Spike Milligan Quotations
-The cliché is the handrail of the crippled mind.
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James Fenimore Cooper Quotations
-It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotations
-A person is happy so long as s/he chooses to be happy, and nothing can stop her/him.
-Our envy of others devours us most of all.
-Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. … Read the rest
Chris Evert Quotations
-If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
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Joseph Heller
-Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. (see Shakespeare)
-He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
-When I grow up I want to … Read the rest
Walker Percy Quotations
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
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Paramanhansa Yogananda Quotations
Many people excuse their own faults but judge others harshly.
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Russell H. Ewing Quotations
-A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or … Read the rest
Osho
-If you are in the future, then ego seems to be very substantial. If you are in the present the ego is a mirage, it starts disappearing.
-In your hopelessness is the only hope, and in your desirelessness is your … Read the rest
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.
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Jonathan Kozol Quotations
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
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Bret Harte Quotations
-The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
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George Washington Quotations
-To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
-Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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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 … Read the rest
Margaret Wheatley Quotations
-When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
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Alan Patrick Herbert Quotations
-The conception of two people living together for 25 years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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Robbie Gass Quotations
-Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
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Meister Eckhart
-If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is ‘Thank You’, that would suffice.
-Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
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Alice Munro Quotations
-Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
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Thomas Hardy Quotations
A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Golda Meir Quotations
-Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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