-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 … Read the rest
Carl Linnaeus Quotations
No science in the world is more elevated, more necessary and more useful than economics.
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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 … Read the rest
Paul Theroux Quotations
Only a fool blames his bad vacation on the rain.
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Arnold Toynbee Quotations
-It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
-America is … Read the rest
Margaret Lee Runbeck Quotations
-Giving is a necessity sometimes… more urgent, indeed, than having.
-Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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Robert Oppenheimer Quotations
To what appear to be the simplest questions, we will tend to give either no answer or an answer which will at first sight be reminiscent more of a strange catechism than of the straight forward affirmatives of physical science. … Read the rest
James F. Byrnes Quotations
-Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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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.
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Richard Wolman
By “spiritual” I do not mean the creedal formulations of any faith tradition, as much as I respect those traditions and as helpful as their insights can be. I mean the ancient and abiding human quest for connectedness with something … Read the rest
H. Mumford Jones
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
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Hodding Carter Quotations
-Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
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Gabrielle Reece Quotations
My philosophy is anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.
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Warren Bennis Quotations
-Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that … Read the rest
William Feather Quotations
-The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
-One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
-Setting a good example … Read the rest
Bruce Lee Quotations
-To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
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John Lennon Quotations
-Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And … Read the rest
Elizabeth Kolbert Quotations
-It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.
-The figures did not take into account the expected increase … Read the rest
John Belushi Quotations
-In your 20s, you feel like you’re indestructible, that nothing can kill you and you laugh at death. You go on and stay up for days and do as many things as you can and then, in your 30s, you … Read the rest
Thich Nhat Hanh Quotations
-Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
-Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our … Read the rest
Alan Kay
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Andy Rooney Quotations
-Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
-Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.… Read the rest
Henry Ford Quotations
-If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you are right.
-No one is apathetic except those in pursuit of someone else’s goals.
-When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves.
-Obstacles are those frightful … Read the rest
Henry James Quotations
-True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one self. But the point is not only to get out – you must stay out. And to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand.
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Hannah Arendt Quotations
-The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
-The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which … Read the rest
Horace Quotations
-Dare to be wise: begin! Those who postpone the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses, yet on it glides, and will glide forever.
-He is almost always … Read the rest
e.e.cummings Quotations
-…to be nobody-but yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
-Once we believe in ourselves, we … Read the rest
Sinclair Lewis Quotations
-People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
-When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
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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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Charles Caleb Colton Quotations
-If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
-We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them … Read the rest
Milarepa
-Accustomed long to contemplating Love and Compassion,
I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
-Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.
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Judith Martin Quotations
-We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
-It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
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Jean-Charles Crombez Quotations
-We are often more astonished about what is outside us than inside us. For example, we think that the powers of healing are outside us, but in fact we may reach them inside us. They are already there and the … Read the rest
Truman Capote Quotations
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotations
-The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
-The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on … Read the rest
Louise Hart Quotations
Self-esteem creates natural highs. Knowing that you’re lovable helps you to love more. Knowing that you’re important helps you to make a difference to others. Knowing that you are capable empowers you to create more. Knowing that you’re valuable and … Read the rest
Thomas H. Huxley Quotations
-Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
-Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
-Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in … Read the rest
Claude Bernard Quotations
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
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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 … Read the rest
James Richardson Quotations
The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.
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Edith Sitwell Quotations
-Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are … 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
Tom Robbins Quotations
-You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you ever risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous in risking one’s life. So you lose … Read the rest
Agatha Christie Quotations
-One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.
-I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite … Read the rest
Li Po
The birds have vanished in the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and I until only the mountain remains.
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Gary Hamel
Whatever I can imagine, I can accomplish. I am no longer a vassal in a faceless bureaucracy. I am an activist, not a drone … I am a revolutionary.
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Alfred Korzybski Quotations
-There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
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Laura Preble Quotations
-There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.
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Abdulrahman Zeitoun Quotations
-You’ve lost your horse and you’re looking for the rope.
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Bernadette Devlin
To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
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Louis L’Amour Quotations
-Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
-Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
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Casey Stengel Quotations
-The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
-There comes a time in every man’s life and I’ve had many of them.
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Hans Selye
If you do what you like you never really work, your work is your play.
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Robert Anthony Quotations
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.
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Sam Keen Quotations
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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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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Tallulah Bankhead Quotations
-I’m as pure as the driven slush.
-Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotations
-The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
-It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
-What … Read the rest
David Reisman Quotations
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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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
Jean Rostand Quotations
-What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our ideals.
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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
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotations
-Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
-It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-I never guess. It is a capital … 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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Iris Murdoch Quotations
-Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
-A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look … Read the rest
Washington Irving Quotations
-An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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Duffy Daugherty Quotations
-Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Edith Sodergran Quotations
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.… Read the rest
William Drummond Quotations
-He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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Slovenian Proverbs
-Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
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Germaine Greer Quotations
-Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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B. Quilliam
There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it’s up to you to draw it.
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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
Herbert Simon Quotations
-…in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of … Read the rest
Ezra Pound Quotations
Literature is news that stays news.
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Shimon Peres Quotations
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
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William Wrigley Jr. Quotations
-When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Jill Churchill Quotations
The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
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Robertson Davies Quotations
-The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with … 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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Belle Livingstone Quotations
-I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.
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Minor White Quotations
-No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
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Ajahn Chah Quotations
-Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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Joe Darion
To dream … the impossible dream …
To fight … the unbeatable foe …
To bear … with unbearable sorrow …
To run … where the brave dare not go …
To right … the unrightable wrong …
To love … 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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Louise Nevelson Quotations
-I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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Tom Schulman Quotations
Now I’d like you to step forward over here. They’re not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they’re destined for … Read the rest
Gian Vincenzo Gravina Quotations
-A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Robert Service Quotations
-Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
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Stephen Nachmanovitch Quotations
-The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
-The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
-Creative work is play. It is free speculation … Read the rest
Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotations
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed.
No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined.
No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled.
No life ever grows great until it is focused, … Read the rest
Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quotations
The Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I … Read the rest
Napoleon Bonaporte Quotations
-Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-History is a fable often told.
-If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
-In politics, absurdity is not … Read the rest
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
Havelock Ellis Quotations
-The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
-It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to … Read the rest
Brenda Ueland Quotations
-So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotations
-It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who can smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
For the test of the heart is troubled,
And it … Read the rest
Heraclitus
-There is only one wisdom: to recognize the intelligence that steers all things.
-Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
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Doctor Who Quotations
-There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.
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