The Little Retreat Quotes: Unsorted
There's no harm in asking.
Chinese fortune cookie
Others cannot figure out what you want - speak up.
Chinese fortune cookie
Even God can not change the past
A popular misconception
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
William Faulkner
A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Chinese proverb
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
English proverb
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances,
would have lain dormant.
Horace
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot
Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.
Charles Peguy
If it is to be, it is up to me.
Unknown
Refuse to be a sidekick.
Unknown
Never complain, never explain.
Unknown
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Unknown
Time exists solely to prevent all things from happening at once.
Chinese fortune cookie
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Voltaire
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire
The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
He who provides for this life but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a
moment but a fool forever.
Unknown
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the
difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage
to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies
of those people I had to kill today because they pissed me off. And
also, help me to be careful of the toes I step on today as they may be
connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow. Help me to
always give 100% at work - 12% on Monday, 23% on Tuesday, 40% on
Wednesday, 20% on Thursday, 5% on Friday. And help me to remember -
When I'm having a really bad day, and it seems that people are trying
to piss me off, that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to extend
my middle finger and tell them to bite me! Amen.
A Prayer for the Stressed, Author Unknown
We all suffer from the disease of immortality. Those who do not make it to a monument
on a square, want to have at least a street named after them - and similar guarantees
of eternal memory. We want, if not an entire obituary column in a newspaper, then
at least a mentioning as one who "lived life to the fullest and who always gave
his all." But a child is not a lottery ticked with a chance to win a bust in a
theater foyer or a portrait in the townhall. Wines and cigarettes, but not human
beings, need to be popular.
Janusz Korczak, How to Love a Child
Life is a succession of moments. To live each is to succeed.
Corita Kent
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t be so humble—you are not that great.
Golda Meir
It's not the most talented people who survive, but the ones with the most drive.
Norma Kamali
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
Martina Navratilova
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against--not with--the wind.
Hamilton Mabie
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and
Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who
understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
Erich Fromm
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend
the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to
unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow...
Ludwig von Mises
Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
Rick Pitino
The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it is also the first to be replaced.
Marilyn Vos Savant
There are two ways to study butterflies: chase them with nets then
inspect their dead bodies, or sit quietly in the garden and watch them
dance among the flowers.
Nongnuch Bassham
It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.
Will Rogers
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beecher
Nothing is a snap.
Marc C. Hochberg
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do
things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains
- except kill it.
Erich Fromm
It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
H.L. Mencken
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H.L. Mencken
The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.
Terrence
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man
a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must
take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive,
indefatigable, renascent errors.
Charles Peguy
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy
What's the use of running when you are not on the right road?
Unknown
Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
John Naisbitt
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching, but also without attempting to play God.
Henry Kissinger
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. ... The leader
works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the
boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Thomas Jefferson
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
Logan Pearsall Smith
If the only prayer you say in your life is "thank you," that would
suffice.
Meister Eckhart
A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.
S.R. Smith
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard W. Newton
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Thomas Kempis
So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance
conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical
thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of
the natural sciences provides the best example) and the advance of
knowledge sooner or later undermines the traditional order. Confused
thinking, on the other hand, leads nowhere in particular and can be
indulged indefinitely without producing any impact upon the world.
Stanislav Andreski
Above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to be naive.
R. Buckminster Fuller
As soon as you bend over, people think you like to work in a bent-over position.
Peter Block
Easy to criticize. More difficult to be correct.
Charlie Chan
To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T.S. Eliot
Fight! Be somebody! If you have lost confidence in yourself, make
believe you are somebody else, somebody that’s got brains, and act like
him.
Sol Hess
When a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We become that which we tolerate.
Nan DeMars
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
H. Jackson Brown
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish,
ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win
some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest
and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you
spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If
you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good
anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final
analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them
anyway.
Mother Teresa
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and do before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Johann Goethe
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha
One should act in consonance with the way of Heaven and Earth, enduring
and eternal, the superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to
the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.
I Ching
Pain and suffering are inevitable, but misery is optional.
Unknown
Change is inevitable. Struggle is an option.
Unknown
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Abraham Maslow
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, only
the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
Abraham Maslow
I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert
overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making
mistakes, or of appearing naive.
Abraham Maslow
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Abraham Maslow
I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.
Theodore Roosevelt
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorable possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Theodore Roosevelt
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Unknown
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of
altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is
accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
Theodore Roosevelt
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or
clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit
it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it
produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work, it the only way to accomplish
results that last.
Hamilton Holt
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Do not ask for what you cannot take.
Unknown
Do not trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you.
Unknown
There is never a raised voice or an argument, there is just a conversation.
Barbara White
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues
with him.
Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
He who limps still walks.
Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
Madeleine L'Engle
I take no more notice of the wind that comes out of the mouths of critics than
of the wind expelled from their backsides.
Leonardo da Vinci
Any subject may be made repulsive by presenting it bristling with difficulties.
Silvanus Thompson
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often,
the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever.
Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
Herbert Agar
Ignorant people are sure of the causes of everything.
James Thorpe
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Never stop looking for a better job.
Unknown
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Hugh Prather
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Hugh Prather
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never
feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
Hugh Prather
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire
must be not to write.
Hugh Prather
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert Camus
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings
having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund Freud
Beaten paths are for beaten people and it's not that life is too short it's
just that we're dead for such a long time.
Unknown
Keep trying. Stay humble. Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When
you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once
eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary
form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and
in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the
value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
Any action of an individual is meaningful only in a social context, either immediate
and direct or remote and indirect, but still social context.
Some fat guy
Small choices may have far-going consequences.
Unknown
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does
not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch Spinoza
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to
discover them.
Galileo Galilei
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away,
I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
Robert M. Pirsig
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement;
then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant.
The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude,
you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.
Winston Churchill
If you cannot fix the people, fix the situation.
Barbara White
There are two paths to follow in life. One is the path of the Dreamer, and the
other is the path of the Dream Stealer. Which path are you following through
life? If your life is worth living then it's worth living the life of your DREAMS!
Rod Moore
Where is the fun of religion if you can't disapprove of other people! There
are some people, I suspect, who would feel obscurely cheated if, when they finally
arrive in heaven, they found everybody else there as well. Heaven would not
be heaven unless those who reached it could peer over the celestial parapets
and watch other unfortunates roasting below. We need training in compassion
because it does not come to us naturally.
Karen Armstrong
Carl Jung once said that a great deal of institutional religion seems designed
to prevent the faithful from having a spiritual experience.
Karen Armstrong
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
It takes as much effort to be nice and polite as it does to be rude and vulgar.
Unknown
Underpromise and overdeliver.
Business wisdom
In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
Chester L. Karrass
Among the many things my late father, God bless his soul, taught me was don't
whine, don't complain, don't fall in a trap and say, well, it's bad luck or
good luck.
Dan Rather
Never miss a chance to shut up.
Unknown
Many of us live perpetually in fire-fighting mode afraid to stop the assembly
line long enough to fix chronic problems.
Roger Erickson
When you find people digging themselves into a hole, and offer to help, they
will ask you to jump in and help them dig faster.
Anonymous
A common dilemma in decision-making: rely on evidence or eminence?
Everyone's problem
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that
is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Unknown
The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by
accident.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days
in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how
to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself
one.
James A. Froude
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long
run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you
are not.
Andre Gide
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation
is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who
study it.
Bertrand Russell
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance
and above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for
something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great
affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
What you do not do is as important, if not more important, as what you do do.
Barbara White
It is as important to decide what not to do as what to do.
Folk wisdom
Problems are the price we pay for living.
Some fat guy
In business, the only rational thing to do is to make a suggestion.
Some fat guy
Let spirited, chaotic dreams
Rule rational, orderly days
Trusting in fate
Mark V. Dahl
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes
genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new
thing in an old way.
Richard Davis
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances,
there is a twilight when everything remains unchanged. And it is in such twilight
that we all must be most aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we
become unwitting victims of the darkness.
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Half the truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are
wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. Murrow
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
“It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods.
It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone... The aim
of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include
plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.”
W. Edwards Deming
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're
doing.
W. Edwards Deming
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your
best.
W. Edwards Deming
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming
Innovation comes from the producer -- not from the customer.
W. Edwards Deming
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the
best of circumstances.
Aristotle
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action
rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch
The best people want to interact with other best people. It is always about
making a better union.
Roger Erickson
If you can't stand to be with your real peers, get out of science.
James D. Watson
Everything about modeling concerns time scales and length scales.
Jonathan Bell
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like
a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow
citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always
cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and
keep still.
Calvin Coolidge
Trust, but verify.
Ronald Reagan
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child
that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Agatha Christie
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality.
Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
People need love most when they deserve it least.
Ernest Eberhard
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Oscar Wilde
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18
Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can
go.
T.S. Elliot
An issue that has been controversial for a long time is unlikely to be resolved
by repeated exercising of the same approaches that made it controversial in
the first place. A new approach, including a new perspective on the issue, is
needed for pushing the controversy toward resolution.
SPA
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a
poor comfort after all.
Christopher Marlowe
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult
chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist
is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry Truman
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
W. Somerset Maugham
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking
about.
Miguel de Unamuno
Never underestimate the power of a few committed individuals to change the world.
Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance
of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I
say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw
When applying for a job, show respect, but do not view your potential employer
as authority. In most cases they are no more qualified than you are.
SPA
Exuberance is beauty.
H.G. Wells
It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.
Aesop
From now on, you will view human bodies as physico-chemical machines, and yourself
as mechanics who maintain and repair them.
Herman V. Troitski - Biochemistry lecture to 2nd-year medical
students
From now on, you will view all human endeavors as process-machines, and yourselves
as the process mechanics who maintain and repair them.
Roger Erickson - On similarites of economies/cultures and
biology
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together
is success.
Henry Ford
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than
any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
In any complex system, the highest cost, by far, is the cost of coordination.
Walter A. Shewhart
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become
what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Data without context is meaningless, so post-docs without markets are useless.
Business view of academics (RGE)
Never underestimate the destructive power of a pretentious fool.
Some fat guy
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
Isolation - and trying to be "happy" - is not a sustainable strategy.
Only adventure keeps happiness in equilibrium.
Roger Erickson
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances
with none.
Thomas Jefferson
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a
shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
John Adams
Exams and interviews only select good performers who know how to
mobilize themselves. Exams and interviews do not select those who are
smart and knowledgeable, because the smart and knowledgeable are always
full of doubt, and therefore do not perform well.
Herman V. Troitski
Speak in benefits, not features.
Salesman's wisdom
There is much more truth in a metaphor than in a fact.
Norman Mailer
The trouble with metaphors is that no matter how true they may be when
they are fresh and clever, when the multitudes pick them up, they
almost immediately become worn out and false. For the whole truth is
always complex to the point of being unknowable, even to the world's
greatest geniuses.
Bill Bonner
People of action despise thinking of any sort, and rightly so, because
the more they think, the more their actions are beset by doubts and
arrière-pensées. The more man thinks, the slower he moves. Thought
uncovers the limitations of his plans. Exploring the possibilities, he
sees yet more potential outcomes, a greater number of problems... and
he increasingly recognizes how little he actually knows. If he keeps
thinking long and hard enough, he is practically paralyzed... a person
of action no more.
Bill Bonner
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Sir William Drummond
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Dick Cavett
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he
who has traveled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived
long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest
assumes the aspect of antiquity.
James Fenimore Cooper
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country.
James Fenimore Cooper
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its
success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its
rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those
consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the
rights themselves.
James Fenimore Cooper
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong without comment.
T. H. White
Today I had a choice of doing something important that no one would
ever realize... or doing something useless that would look like an
accomplishment. So I attended meetings until I could no longer
appreciate the difference.
Dilbert [Scott Adams]
Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
Humphrey Bogart
Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
Willa Cather
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the
story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all
times, how to escape.
Walter Bagehot
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Walter Bagehot
Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work
out.
Unknown
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his
work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body,
his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He
hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence
at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or
playing. To him he's always doing both.
James A. Michener
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the
intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful
to those teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
Exactitude in small matters is the very soul of discipline.
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to
performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Robert Heinlein
Absent selective pressure, random habit becomes fixed policy.
Roger Erickson
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a
second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a
man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance
immensely the value of your first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would surely still be at the dock.
Marc Faber
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
You can give a serf freedom, but you can't make him keep it.
Roger Erickson
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
People support something not because they believe in it; not
because they were paid a bribe to support it; but because they think
supporting it is a fashion accessory, will increase their own face
value.
Chetan Pandit
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.
attributed to William Shakespeare
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius
There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
John Steinbeck
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record each & everyday, and you are a success.
Willim Boetcker
What we must decide is how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are truly no enemies, only failure to see group options offering orders of magnitude higher stakes.
Roger Erickson
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinger
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything. You are you and
that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Henry Kissinger
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Henry Kissinger
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to
reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their
purposes.
Henry Kissinger
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
Mario Puzo
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
I don't own the personal hubris to assume that any book I'm writing is going to get published.
Mark Spragg
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I would sooner eat garbage than feign enthusiasm.
Ran Prieur
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
William Glasser
Opportunity misses those who view the world through the eyes of their profession.
Gerald Celente
All progress is seen to be a frantic struggle towards an objective which you hope and pray will never be reached.
George Orwell
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.
William M. Kelly
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which thou
seest, and out of their substance will make other things, and again
other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may be
ever new.
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to
desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of
self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
G. K. Chesterton
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard Shaw
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have
been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to
do that very thing.
G. M. Trevelyan
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to
stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He
that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent
that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
In whatever you're doing, failure is an option, but fear is not.
James Cameron
All truth goes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Then it is
violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true
reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Buddha
No matter how heroically capable individual wasps are, they have no chance against the group capabilities of honeybees.
Roger Erickson
Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Oscar Wilde
Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
Henri Queuille
I wish I could tolerate the current set-up for the sake of the salary
but I don't think I can do this. I am a little scared about change from
security but sometimes security is extremely unhealthy.
Lyn Camire
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
Aristotle
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually
winning over and converting its opponents... What does happen is that
its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is
familiarized with the idea from the beginning.
Max Planck
Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
A proverb
Teamwork will always trump any amount of individual ability.
Roger Erickson
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Unknown
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Tennessee Williams
The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.
Tacitus
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account
can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an
injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from
him.
Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them
Galileo Galilei
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is
like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the
handle.
Winston Churchill
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men
will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men, they create
for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes
it, and a moral code that glorifies it.
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (1850)