Accident: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better All easy problems have already been solved All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right Always borrow money from a pessimist; they don't expect to be paid back Always try to do things in chronogical order; it's less confusing that way Anarchy may not be the best form of government, but it's better than no government at all An armed society is a pite society An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy Anyone can count the seeds in an apple No one can count the apples in a seed Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw Artificial Intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in movies Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity As a general rule, the freedom of any people can be judged by the volume of their laughter As of 1992, they're called European Economic Community fries Be kind to unkind people they need it the most A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours Bumper sticker: Auntie Em: Hate you, hate Kansas, taking dog Business is like a wheelbarrow Nothing ever happens until you start pushing Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage Computers are not intelligent They only think they are Condense soup, not books! Conscious is when you are aware of something, and conscience is when you wish you weren't Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research A day without sunshine is like night Democracy is mob rule, but with income taxes Do not flow where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail Don't have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing Eschew obfuscation Every revolutionary idea in science, politics, art, or whatever evokes three stages of reaction in a hearer: It is completely impossible don't waste my time It is possible, but it is not worth doing I said it was a good idea all along Every time history repeats itself the price goes up A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother The goal of science is to build better mousetraps The goal of nature is to build better mice Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier The greatest threat towards future is indifference Half of the people in the world are below average He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit The high cost of living hasn't affected its popularity Hindsight is an exact science Horses just naturally have mohawk haircuts How can you tell when sour cream goes bad? The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity The rest is overhead for the operating system The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail If I ever needed a brain transplant, I'd choose a teenager's because I'd want a brain that had never been used If the car industry behaved like the computer industry over the last 30 years, a Rolls-Royce would cost $5, get 300 miles per gallon, and blow up once a year killing all passengers inside If God wanted me to touch my toes, he'd have put them on my knees If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it's women's work If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? If the odds are a million to one against something occuring, chances are 50-50 it will If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system If you hear an onion ring, answer it If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the precipitate I have often regretted my speech, never my silence In a survey taken several years ago, all incoming freshman at MIT were asked if they expected to graduate in the top half of their class Ninety-seven percent responded that they did Include the success of others in your dreams for your own success In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice .In practice, however, there is Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to I still miss my ex-wife, but my aim is getting better It may be that your whe purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it It's hard to make a program foolproof because fools are so ingenious Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet Life would be so much easier if everyone read the manual The light at the end of the tunnel is usually a "No Exit" sign Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone Madness takes its toll Please have exact change A metaphor is like a simile Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell Nearly everyone is in favor of going to heaven but too many are hoping they'll live long enough to see an easing of the entrance requirements Never appeal to a man's better nature .He might not have one Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from Nobody trips over mountains It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain No man knows what true happiness is until he gets married By then, of course, its too late The number you have dialed is imaginary Please divide by 0 and try again Objects in mirror are closer than they appear Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most One essential to success is that you desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you are in the bathroom People seldom know what they want until you give them what they ask for People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues The philosophy exam was a piece of cake which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives Q: How do you spell "onomatopoeia"? A: The way it sounds Q: What do you get when you cross an ethernet with an income statement? A: A local area networth Quantum particles: The dreams that stuff is made of A rolling stone gathers momentum Roses are red Violets are blue Some poems rhyme Some people march to the beat of a different drummer And some people tango! Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma The speed of time is one second per second A Stanford research group advertised for participants in a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder They were looking for therapy clients who had been diagnosed with this disorder The response was gratifying; they got 3,000 responses about three days after the ad came out All from the same person Status quo Latin for the mess we're in Success in marriage is not so much finding the right person as it is being the right person Teenagers are people who express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike There are some strings They're just not attached There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone There's no future in time travel Thought for the day: What if there were no hypothetical situations? To be a winner, all you need to give is all you have Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow Too many people are ready to carry the stool when the piano needs to be moved Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins, you can't imagine the smell We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing When the tide of life turns against you And the current upsets your boat Don't waste tears on what might have been Just lie on your back and float What's the sound a name makes when it's dropped? What was sliced bread the greatest thing since? When all else fails, read the instructions When all is said and done, more is said than done Where would we be without rhetorical questions? While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does Why can you only have two doors on a chicken coop? If it had four it would be a chicken sedan Work 8 hours, sleep 8 hours; but not the same 8 hours Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what you've already covered You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely You can fool some of the people all of the time, and You can fool all of the people some of the time, but You can't fool mom You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days You don't have to worry about me I might have been born yesterday but I stayed up all night Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so Douglas Adams Comedy is tragedy plus time Carl Burnett Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education Chuang-Tzu It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data Arthur Conan Doyle Never judge a book by its movie J W Eagan A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming Jane Fonda Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined Samuel Goldwyn "As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow He could be plotting something Hagar the Horrible Last night I dreamed I had insomnia I woke up exhausted, yet too well rested to go back to sleep Bob Ingman The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper Thomas Jefferson Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics Fletcher Knebel Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful Ann Landers I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty Groucho Marx We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are Anais Nin Never fight an inanimate object P J O'Rourke Things are not always what they seem Phaedrus Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things Dan Quayle You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake Jeannette Rankin All life's answers are on TV Homer Simpson You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people Melissa Timberman School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you John Updike Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd Voltaire Expect nothing Live frugally on surprise Alice Walker All men think all men are mortal but themselves Edward Young The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity Zig Ziglar "i'm sorry i didn't mean to destroy the universe geoff made me do it" "I do NOT have a sense of humor! It says so in my 1000-line sig!" "We used to *dream* of getting two points for a bumper When I was a wee lad, to even get to a pinball machine one had to wake up at five in the morning, trudge ten miles each way through the industrial waste from our corrugated box outside the sausage factory to the pool hall, battle goons to even get to the pinball machine, and then you wouldn't even get points for hitting a bumper, just electric shocks" Ted Frank "Anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron, because I said so" Matt McIrvin "If the attempts at censorship continue, I will have no option but to shut down this newsgroup" V Nagarajan "I can't kill you, I have to be sick and demented and scary right now" Lisa Kellner "thou shalt not usurp kibo, lest thee become not allowed" "I want this group What do you think? Anyone who disagrees with me is a communist" "And under HappyNet, whenever rn says "End of newsgroup alt slack ", it'll rmgroup it for you" "And whenever sees your signature it'll rmgroup alt slack as well! "Take your sense of humor out of rec .org mensa" "People like Dan Gannon, Serdar Argic, and John Winston have consistently attempted to push their own private paranoid fantasies on the rest of us, denying us our Constitutional Right to our OWN, PRIVATE paranoid fantasies" "Moments of insight like the above are the abandoned single sneakers on the information superhighway" It's not denial I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality" "I'm not an insomniac I'm pursuing an alternative sleeping lifestyle" "I'm a closet discordian a pantry subgenius " Lisa Kellner "I'm not hurling abuse AT you, I'm hurling abuse WITH you!" "I don't like sex on the computer I mean, I keep falling off" Ted Frank "You have some intriguing ideas Have you considered naming yourself after a radioactive element?" Lewis Stiller "Fuck you and the prepositional phrase you rode in on" "time flies when you're having drinks" "Hell, I remember when Alex and his Droogs in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE were SCIENCE FICTION characters UNTHINKABLY VIOLENT and DEVOID OF VALUES Well, good Tony Burgess turns out to have been a SIMPERING OPTIMIST" Rev Ivan Stang "Eris is in my nipples!" wednesday "If Nenslo is indeed a neocheater who exists through dishonestly usurping the values of others, and those usurpations can be objectively identified, then Nenslo will eventually become permanently entrapped in Neo-Tech's inescapable ostracism matrix" nichas rich "Chad, you're reasoning is crisp and precise Your grasp of human psychology is cocksure and robust You've earned my lasting respect, and if you have any JPEGs of your butt that you could post, I'd be sincerely grateful" Joe Newman Courage is being scared to death and sading up anyways John Wayne It all comes down to you Joni Mitchell It all comes down to do Peter McWilliams Ideas are for action Aristotle Knowledge is nothing without action Nothing changes until you do something What you do will directly determine what you learn James A Belasco, Ralph C Stayer, Flight of the Buffalo Some reasons given for not doing something 1 We've been moving too fast We have to slow down and get this right 2 We could never afford to take this kind of risk 3 If we make a big push on this, people will think it is just another program 4 Many of our people will never accept this They will not want to change We have been hearing about what 'they' will or will not do for years We have never been able to find one they; in a company 'They' always seem to be in the next room, the next level, the next division, the next building, the bathroom 5 But we're a big company But we're a small company But we have a union But we don't have a union But we're a private company But we're a public company But the wind is blowing from the east and it's Tuesday James A Belasco, Ralph C Stayer, Flight of the Buffalo Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions All of life is an experiment How do you do? That's easy You do by learning And how do you learn? You learn by doing The more you learn, the more you can learn; the more you have to associate new learning with Roger Merrill, Connections The more associations we make when learning material, the easier it is to remember the material Peter Russell, The Brain Book Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have of trying to change others Jacob M Braude To change is difficult; not to change is fatal People don't resist change They resist being changed We should recognize that if we want to improve, we need to be prepared to change John Sherwood When someone says they will improve (themselves or something else), there are two questions to be asked: What will you do differently? When will you start? Ferdinand Fournes What we need, then, are training techniques that will produce a permanent increase in our capacity for attention Douglas Herrmann, Super Memory I've always felt that coaching was a word that was synonymous with trust, integrity, dignity, ; wisdom, that coaches were people you could count on, talk to, and be counseled by Pat Riley Education is what you get when you sit in your living room with a bunch of teenagers Education can no longer be confined to the schools Every employing institution has to become a teacher (Peter Drucker) I respect faith but doubt its what gets you an education Wilson Mizner Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence (Robert Frost) True education means mind deployment; not merely the gathering and classifying of knowledge Napoleon Hill, Laws of Success Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute (John Adams) Learning you get from school Education you get from life Mark Twain Fifteen minutes a day devoted to one definite study will make one a master in a dozen years Edward Howard Griggs) There is only one thing which will really train the human mind and that is the voluntary use of the mind by the man himself You may aid him, you may guide him, you may suggest to him, and above all you may inspire him; but the only thing worth having is that which he gets by his own exertions; and what he gets is proportionate to the effort he puts into it Lawrence Lowell When you stop trying, you stop growing Keep the facility of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day William James Whistle while you work (The Seven Dwarfs) Start each day in a happy way it drives everybody crazy! Greeting card Get on the Happy Bus(Happy, But Unsatisfied) (Peter McWilliams) The important thing to remember is that if you don't have that inspired enthusiasm that is contagious whatever you do have is also contagious (Danny Cox) Be the best If others don't see it who cares? The more effective you are in class, the more is demanded of you outside class (C Rand Christensen) If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people (Chinese Proverb) All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare (Benedict Spinoza) Ichiban: Japanese for number 1, the biggest, the best (itch-e-bon) If you grow with it a step at a time, and a day at a time, anything is possible (Ruth Zikowski, worker at Crazy Horse Nat'l Monument) When a person has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do (Charles Schwab) If you expect the best, very often you'll get it Treat each learner as a unique individual with unique potential, whose limits only he or she will ultimately determine adapted from guiding philosophy of indep school district, (Twin Cities, Ruth Randall) Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be (Goethe) Everyone needs to know what is expected of them Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying (Merry Browne) At one time or another, we can all play both Pygmalion the creator who strongly molds another and the object of a Pygmalion Conversely what others think about us and how they treat us does affect us How we behave toward others has consequences for them and for us These effects are consequences either positive or negative, but never neutral (Wess Roberts, Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich) If you were told you are dumb and let yourself believe it, you will perform accordingly You will be victimized through your own low expectations, and if you convince others as well, then you are in double jeopardy (Wayne Dyer) Eisenhower had a high opinion of the potential of the common man In 1967 he wrote: In our Army, it was thought that every private had at least a Second Lieutenant's bars somewhere in him and he was helped and encouraged to earn them I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused Teachers are similar to bosses: You rarely get to choose them; some are good and some are bad And while you're subject to their authority, what they think of you really does matter (Wess Roberts, Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich) An mountaineer from West Virginia was celebrated for his wisdom Uncle Zed, a young man asked him, how did you get so wise? Weren't hard, said the man I've got good judgment Good judgment comes from experience, and experience well that comes from making bad judgments The great difficulty in eduation is to get experience out of ideas (George Santayana) We want you (students) to come to the point where, in every phase of your life, you will be able to make a moral responsible choice by asking, What do I think? rather than What does the book say? or What does the professor say? (Dr Alfred B Bonds, Jr) Facilitating is like driving - you've got to pay attention a lot (Kevin Eikenberry) People fear failure, because they don't see it as the road to success (Richard Saul Wurman, Flow the Yellow Brick Road ) You can never go too far Ferris Beuller, to his compatriots as he schmoozes their way into a posh (Manhattan restaurant dressed in a T-shirt) The harder you work the harder it is to surrender (Vince Lombardi) Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God Your playing small doesn't serve the world There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you You were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within you It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others (Nelson Mandela) Because it's so common, fear has many other names: apprehension, misgiving, trepidation, dread, horror, phobia, terror, alarm, consternation, foreboding, qualm, suspicion, fret, alarm, uneasiness, distress, panic, etc (Peter McWilliams, Do It!) Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will (W Clement Stone) I've got to keep breathing It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't (Sir Nathan Meyer Rothschild) Nothing is so much to be feared as fear (Henry David Thoreau, 1841) The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out ; The only way to feel better about myself, is to go out ; Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I' m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else (Suzanne Jeffries) Act as if you are poised, confident, and beautiful and you will be (William James) The two greatest fear busters are knowledge ; Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them (Epictetus) A U of M study showed that 60% of our fears are unwarranted, and 20% have already become past events and are completely out of our control Another 10% are so petty that they don't make any difference Of the remaining 10% of our fears, only 4 to 5% are real ; justifiable And we can't do anything about half of them! That means only about 2% of our fears are really worth thinking about these can be solved by simply stop stewing ; start doing! Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear In time, courage becomes the ability to use all the elements of the comfort zone as additional energy to move toward our goal When we add en to courage, we have encourage En is a prefix meaning to be at one with (Peter McWilliams Do It!) When thinking won't cure fear, action will (W Clement Stone) Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps (David Lloyd George) You gain strength, courage ; confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror I can take the next thing that comes along You must do the thing you think you cannot do (Eleanor Roosevelt) Critics assessment of a young Fred Astaire: Can't act .Can't sing .Balding .Can dance a little Giving is receiving When our attention is on giving and joining with others, fear is removed and we accept healing for ourselves (Gerald Jampsky, Teach Only Love) One of the best things you can do for other people is help them recognize how they can improve (Wess Roberts,Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich) Flatter me, and I may not believe you Criticize me, and I may not like you Ignore me, and I may not forgive you Encourage me, and I will not forget you (William Arthur Ward) Work works better when it's fun Lisa Menna, (Corporate Magician) Having fun and learning are not mutually exclusive (from Playfair) I think you learn better when you're having fun (Lisa Harris) No fun without music and no music without fun (Albert D Stewart) True humor is fun it does no put down, kid, or mock It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together (Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself) Someone who gives me carte blanche permission to be silly, to be goffy,is the kind of person who liberates my playful self .There can be a lot of sense in non-sense (from Playfair) There is a direct connection between wellness and playfulness In China, for example, the Teahouse is a real social institution Throughout the day, families, neighbors, and friends drop in for tea and light food They stay as long as they like Discussions may last for hours It would be a bit strange to call the Teahouse the non-exclusive neighborhood social club; such terms are too Western But that can roughly describe part of the function, at least from our rather compartmentalized point of view You're important Relax and enjoy yourself (That's the message of the Teahouse Benjamin Moff, The Tao of Pooh) Mi Casa, Su Casa! (Speedy Gonzales) A sense of humor implies a confident person if you can joke about a tough situation, you're saying, Yes, it's serious, but I'm in control (Robert Orben, Former Director of the White House Speech writing Dept) Who is it that says most? Which can say more, Then this rich praise, that you alone are you? (Shakespeare) Organizations learn only through individuals who learn Individual learning does not guarantee organizational learning But without it no organizational learning occurs (Peter Senge) Anticipation = being active and imaginative rather than passive and habitual Learning by listening to others Participation: shaping events, rather than being shaped by them (Warren Bennis) It's what you learn after you know it all that counts (John Wooden) It's amazing how much we can learn from those who apparently have nothing to teach The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration (Wanda Landowska) We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is superficial learning We must make it our own (Michael Eyquim de Montaigue, Essays) To learn, you must want to be taught (Proverbs 12:1) If you want to get the most from your brain use it! Make the most of it! (Kevin Eikenberry) The process of making something our own is called learning (Peter McWilliams, Wealth 101) The process of learning can be given in four steps: Look for the mistakes (criticize) Learn how to do it better next time Go to 1(from Do It!) One of the marvelous things about life is that any gaps in your education can be filled, whatever your age or situation, by reading and thinking about what you read (Warren Bennis, On Becoming A Leader) No matter what happens to me, I'm going to learn something useful from it The burden of teaching is on the person who wants to teach the burden of learning is on the person who wants to learn (Jo Milburn Smith) After you've done all you can to learn a new skill or to broaden your knowledge, you've earned the right to be proud of your efforts regaress of the grade you receive Remembering this point will help you become consistent and dependable, instilling in you a sense of self-worth, and all of these qualities are far more important that sheer brilliance (Wess Roberts, Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich) Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human Through learning we re-create ourselves Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline) Learning is by no means something we are supposed to do only from the ages of 5 to 21, in buildings called schools,but rather that it is a lifelong process, the proper conduct of which is not only absutely necessary for the physical survival of individuals but for the survival of entire species (Steve Allen) Learning is the core of work All people have two jobs: (a) their daily task; and (b) improving the reliability of processes by which they do their work (John J Sherwood) Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty Anyone who keeps learning stays young The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young (Henry Ford) It is in knowledge as in swimming: he who flounders and splashes on the surface makes more noise, and attracts more attention, than the pearl diver who quietly dives in quest of treasures to the bottom (Washington Irving) Get to know what it is you don't know as fast as you can (Robert Miller, The Super Manager) That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games Losing, in a curious way, is winning (Richard Bach) He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning 'Come over this afternoon and play croquet,' said Irina Cherkassova 'I don't know the game,' replied Flapping Eagle 'Then it will be instructive,' she smiled 'When you play a game you don't understand, it teaches you a great deal about yourself and your limitations (Salman Rushdie, Grimus) No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression-this is the maxim which the teacher ought never to forget (William James) You can see alot, just by listening (Yogi Berra) Consider putting an imaginary drop of Elmer's glue between your lips during a conversation to improve your listening skills adapted from (Victor Dishy) After a student finishes talking, watch her eyes Do they indicate that her thought is now complete? If you feel unsure, wait a few seconds and recheck A five-second pause often produces a contributor's most insightful thought (C Rand Christensen) Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things I am tempted to think there are no little things (Bruce Barton) Small Behavior Difference Big Performance Difference (Kevin Eikenberry) In 1989, the difference between the 1st and 41st money winners on the PGA tour was 1 strokeround Little things don't mean a lot; they mean everything (Harvey Mackay) Life is frittered away by detail Simplify! Simplify! (Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862) Verbal reactions, useful as they are, are insufficient (William James) As long as the superiority between words and pictures can't be determined, it makes sense to use both, where applicable, when communicating information (Richard Saul Wurman, flow the Yellow Brick Road) Everything is easy, when you know how (Joe Walden) Our goal is to provide the right training, to the right persons, at the right time, and return them to the right environment, so that the skills can be used immediately We are a long way from that, but we are looking at methods to help us get there (Motorola Corp) The ultimate responsibility for your getting good instruction lies not with your teacher, but with you (George Leonard,Mastery) True education requires students to be personally invested in the learning process (David Garvin) Focus on the contribution you can make (Peter Drucker) Retention, it appears, increases markedly when learning is solidly anchored in the experience and interest of students (David Garvin) Anything given less than one minute of thought will fade from your memory Douglas J (Herrmann, Super Memory) MURPHY'S LAWS Nothing is as easy as it looks Everything takes longer than you think Anything that can go wrong will go wrong If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something Nature always sides with the hidden flaw Mother nature is a bitch It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first The Light at the end of the tunnel is only the light of an oncoming train Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy Friendly fire ain't The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at The further you are in advance of your own positions, the more likely your artillery will shoot short Incoming fire has the right of way If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss Don't be conspicuous In the combat zone, it draws fire Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abishes the system or expands it beyond recognition Technogy is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure All great discoveries are made by mistake Always draw your curves, then plot your reading Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget All's well that ends A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost The first myth of management is that it exists A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection New systems generate new problems To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything Any given program, when running, is obsolete Any sufficiently advanced technogy is indistinguishable from magic A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote thebook or even what book The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable Give all orders verbally Never write anything down that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File" Under the most rigorously contrled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well leases If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totalled correctly after 4:30 p.m on Friday The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday Fill what's empty Empty what's full And scratch where it itches All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door The only perfect science is hind-sight Work smarder and not harder and be careful of yor speling If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist If an experiment works, something has gone wrong When all else fails, read the instructions If there is a possibility of several things going wrong the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong Everything that goes up must come down Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it If it jams, force it If it breaks, it probably needed to be replaced anyway The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management All the good ones are taken If the person isn't taken, there's a reason (corr to 1) The nicer someone is, the farther away (s)he is from you Brains x Beauty x Availability = Constant The amount of love someone feels for you is inversely proportional to how much you love them Money can't buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position The best things in the world are free-and worth every penny of it Every kind action has a not-so-kind reaction Nice guys(girls) finish last If it seems too good to be true, it probably is Availability is a function of time The minute you get interested is the minute they find someone else The more beautiful the woman is who loves you, the easier it is to leave her with no hard feelings Nothing improves with age No matter how many times you've had it, if it's offered take it, because it'll never be quite the same again Sex has no calories Sex takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble There is no remedy for sex but more sex Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got No sex with anyone in the same office Sex is like snow; you never know how many inches you are going to get or how long it is going to last A man in the house is worth two in the street If you get them by the balls, their hearts and minds will flow Virginity can be cured When a man's wife learns to understand him, she usually stops listening to him Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself The qualities that most attract a woman to a man are usually the same ones she can't stand years later Sex is dirty only if it's done right It is always the wrong time of month The best way to hold a man is in your arms When the lights are out, all women are beautiful Sex is hereditary If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either Sow your wild oats on Saturday nightThen on Sunday pray for crop failure The younger the better The game of love is never called off on account of darkness It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden Sex discriminates against the shy and the ugly Before you find your handsome prince, you've got to kiss a lot of frogs There may be some things better than sex, and some things worse than sex But there is nothing exactly like it Love your neighbor, but don't get caught Love is a hole in the heart If the effort that went in research on the female bosom had gone into our space program, we would now be running hot-dog stands on the moon Love is a matter of chemistry, sex is a matter of physics Do it only with the best Sex is a three-letter word which needs some old-fashioned four-letter words to convey its full meaning One good turn gets most of the blankets You cannot produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all Thou shalt not commit adultery - unless in the mood Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you Abstain from wine, women, and song; mostly song Never argue with a women when she's tired or rested A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick It is better to be looked over than overlooked Never say no A man can be happy with any woman as long as he doesn't love her Folks playing leapfrog must complete all jumps Beauty is skin deep; ugly goes right to the bone Never stand between a fire hydrant and a dog A man is only a man, but a good bicycle is a ride Love comes in spurts The world does not revolve on an axis Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation; the other eight are unimportant Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking Don't do it if you can't keep it up There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love Never go to bed mad, stay up and fight Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another "This won't hurt, I promise Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born John Florio A man's best friends are his ten fingers Robert Collyer I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process Benjamin Harrison He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor Benjamin Franklin There is no real wealth but the labor of man Percy Bysshe Shelley It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things Theodore Roosevelt Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price Samuel Johnson Labor is man's greatest function He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working Orville Dewey Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne Robert Green Ingersoll The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures Luc de Clapiers Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas Samuel Johnson Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone Ralph Waldo Emerson Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow Oliver Wendell Holmes Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people William Butler Yeats Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks Alfred North Whitehead Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Language is the dress of thought Samuel Johnson Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests Samuel Taylor Coleridge He laughs best who laughs last English Proverb A man isn't poor if he can still laugh Raymond Hitchcock The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed Chamfort Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain Charlie Chaplin Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves James Matthew Barrie If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash Puzant Kevork Thomajan Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face Victor Hugo I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at Wilson Mizner Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent H. L. Mencken We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom Hubert H Humphrey Petty laws breed great crimes If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can That means first chaos, then tyranny Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process Felix Frankfurter It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive Earl Warren Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced Elbert Hubbard If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable Louis D Brandeis If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made Otto von Bismarck You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people Will Rogers No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature Ralph Waldo Emerson A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it Henry Ward Beecher Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals Niccolò Machiavelli The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly Abraham Lincoln The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely Robert Bolt Any law that takes hd of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life Henry Ward Beecher There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick Grover A. Whalen How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread! Anatole France The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty Ashleigh Brilliant In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited Herbert Hoover The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on Walter Lippmann Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it Dwight D Eisenhower You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too Sam Rayburn And when we think we lead, we are most led Lord Byron If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch Matthew 15:14 The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground Winston Churchill Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone And acting alone, accept everything alone Ferdinand Edralin Marcos No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session Gideon J Tucker Legislators represent people, not trees or acres Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests Earl Warren In all forms of government the people is the true legislator Edmund Burke Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear Anonymous He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare William Henry Davies They talk of the dignity of work The dignity is in leisure Herman Melville Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure Benjamin Franklin Leisure is the mother of philosophy Thomas Hobbes The end of labor is to gain leisure Aristotle In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on Pythagoras We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace Aristotle What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man Robert Green Ingersoll I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it Thomas Jefferson Where liberty is, there is my country Benjamin Franklin Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches Will Rogers Liberty consists in wholesome restraint Daniel Webster I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty Woodrow Wilson It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own Thomas Jefferson Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world Earl Warren Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself Henry Brooks Adams Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others William Allen White The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants It is it's natural manure Thomas Jefferson Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have Harry Emerson Fosdick Liberty means responsibility That is why most men dread it George Bernard Shaw Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty John Fitzgerald Kennedy Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety Benjamin Franklin I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone H. L. Mencken Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost Jean Jacques Rousseau Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people John Adams Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations Herbert Spencer Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns Charles Feidelson, Jr The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life William James Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways Stephen Vincent Benét We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it William Osler Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry Mark Twain A baby is God's opinion that life should go on Carl Sandburg I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived Oliver Wendell Holmes Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive Elbert Hubbard Life is the childhood of our immortality Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded Fulton J Sheen Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first Benjamin Franklin Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think Jean de La Bruyère Life is a dead-end street H. L. Mencken The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another James Matthew Barrie It is not true that life is one damn thing after another It's one damn thing over and over Edna St.Vincent Millay Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry Try to be alive You will be dead soon enough William Saroyan May you live all the days of your life (Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation) Simply the thing I am shall make me live William Shakespeare Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die Robert Southwell Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations) Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour Stephen Butler Leacock Light is the symbol of truth James Russell Lowell The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light Matthew Arnold Light is the first of painters There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures James Thurber Literature is the immortality of speech August Wilhelm von Schlegel The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Literature is the orchestration of platitudes Thornton Wilder A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself Don Marquis Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice Cyril Connolly Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree Ezra Pound Literature is news that stays news Ezra Pound Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money Jules Renard Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason André Gide Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature Ralph Waldo Emerson Logic is the anatomy of thought John Locke Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge Benjamin Jowett Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice Elbert Hubbard Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis John Dewey Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence Joseph Wood Krutch Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic William E Gladstone Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities Lord Dunsany The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it Bernard de Voto I was never less alone than when by myself Edward Gibbon The surest cure for vanity is loneliness Thomas Wolfe The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence Thomas Wolfe Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone Paul Tillich In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely Geoffrey Francis Fisher People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges Joseph F. Newton H2LoquacityH2 Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative Oliver Goldsmith German Proverb Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed Sir Walter Raleigh He who talks much cannot talk well Carlo Goldoni They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say Matthew Prior No fool can be silent at a feast Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms William Shakespeare The cheerful loser is the winner Elbert Hubbard It's the good loser who finally loses out Kin Hubbard When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost German Motto No evil is without its compensation The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it Richard Whately Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old John Ciardi There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies François de La Rochefoucauld All mankind loves a lover Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination Voltaire If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving Anonymous Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies John Donne There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish Alfred Adler To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave Mahatma Gandhi The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost Gilbert K. Chesterton Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late Douglas Jerrold I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation Samuel Osgood He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals Benjamin Franklin First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it George Bernard Shaw I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love Henry Ward Beecher We are shaped and fashioned by what we love Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning Thornton Wilder Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another H. L. Mencken Love gives itself; it is not bought Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all Alfred, Lord Tennyson Loyalty is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation Henry S Commager Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul Mark Twain Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union Rufus Choate Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice Woodrow Wilson My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right Carl Schurz Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living Josiah Royce Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit R. E. Shay It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck Joseph Conrad Chance favors the prepared mind Louis Pasteur So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else Don Marquis If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? Stanislaw J. Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold Yiddish Proverb As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for Josh Billings Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success Anonymous I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? Jean Cocteau Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect Ralph Waldo Emerson A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck James A. Garfield The only sure thing about luck is that it will change Wilson Mizner War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind John Crowne We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities Oscar Wilde Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind Henry David Thoreau Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor Henry Home On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired Edward Young Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind Albert Einstein Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries Oliver Wendell Holmes Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins Edward Payson Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well Samuel Butler Never chase a lie Let it alone, and it will run itself to death I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it Lyman Beecher The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else George Bernard Shaw One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie Corneille Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all Oliver Wendell Holmes You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says Aristippus The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe H. L. Mencken I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy Samuel Butler There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it William James Time is the coin of your life It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you Carl Sandburg The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend Henri Bergson The cure for boredom is curiosity There is no cure for curiosity Ellen Parr All nature is but art unknown to thee Alexander Pope Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream Kahlil Gibran The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for Allan K. Chalmers Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing Thomas H. Huxley The world is but a canvas to the imagination Henry David Thoreau You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot do Eleanor Roosevelt Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground Theodore Roosevelt Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others Robert Louis Stevenson Destiny is no matter of chance It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved William Jennings Bryan Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness James Thurber Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born John Florio A man's best friends are his ten fingers Robert Collyer I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process Benjamin Harrison He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor Benjamin Franklin There is no real wealth but the labor of man Percy Bysshe Shelley It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things Theodore Roosevelt Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price Samuel Johnson Labor is man's greatest function He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working Orville Dewey Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne Robert Green Ingersoll The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures Luc de Clapiers Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas Samuel Johnson Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone Ralph Waldo Emerson Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow Oliver Wendell Holmes Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people William Butler Yeats Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks Alfred North Whitehead Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Language is the dress of thought Samuel Johnson Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests Samuel Taylor Coleridge He laughs best who laughs last English Proverb A man isn't poor if he can still laugh Raymond Hitchcock The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed Chamfort Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain Charlie Chaplin Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves James Matthew Barrie If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash Puzant Kevork Thomajan Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face Victor Hugo I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at Wilson Mizner Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent H. L. Mencken We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom Hubert H. Humphrey Petty laws breed great crimes If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can That means first chaos, then tyranny Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process Felix Frankfurter It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive Earl Warren Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced Elbert Hubbard If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable Louis D. Brandeis If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made Otto von Bismarck You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people Will Rogers No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature Ralph Waldo Emerson A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it Henry Ward Beecher Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals Niccolò Machiavelli The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly Abraham Lincoln The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely Robert Bolt Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life Henry Ward Beecher There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick Grover A. Whalen How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread! Anatole France The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty Ashleigh Brilliant In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited Herbert Hoover The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on Walter Lippmann Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it Dwight D. Eisenhower You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too Sam Rayburn And when we think we lead, we are most led Lord Byron If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch Matthew 15:14 The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground Winston Churchill Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone And acting alone, accept everything alone Ferdinand Edralin Marcos No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session Gideon J. Tucker Legislators represent people, not trees or acres Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests Earl Warren In all forms of government the people is the true legislator Edmund Burke Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear Anonymous He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare William Henry Davies They talk of the dignity of work The dignity is in leisure Herman Melville Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure Benjamin Franklin Leisure is the mother of philosophy Thomas Hobbes The end of labor is to gain leisure Aristotle In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on Pythagoras We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace Aristotle What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man Robert Green Ingersoll I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it Thomas Jefferson Where liberty is, there is my country Benjamin Franklin Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches Will Rogers Liberty consists in wholesome restraint Daniel Webster I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty Woodrow Wilson It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own Thomas Jefferson Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world Earl Warren Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself Henry Brooks Adams Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others William Allen White The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants It is it's natural manure Thomas Jefferson Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have Harry Emerson Fosdick Liberty means responsibility That is why most men dread it George Bernard Shaw Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty John Fitzgerald Kennedy Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety Benjamin Franklin I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone H. L. Mencken Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost Jean Jacques Rousseau Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people John Adams Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations Herbert Spencer Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns Charles Feidelson, Jr The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life William James Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways Stephen Vincent Benét We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it William Osler Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry Mark Twain A baby is God's opinion that life should go on Carl Sandburg I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived Oliver Wendell Holmes Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive Elbert Hubbard Life is the childhood of our immortality Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded Fulton J. Sheen Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first Benjamin Franklin Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think Jean de La Bruyère Life is a dead-end street H. L. Mencken The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another James Matthew Barrie It is not true that life is one damn thing after another It's one damn thing over and over Edna St. Vincent Millay Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry Try to be alive You will be dead soon enough William Saroyan May you live all the days of your life Jonathan Swift (Polite Conversation) Simply the thing I am shall make me live William Shakespeare Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die Robert Southwell Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations) Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour Stephen Butler Leacock Light is the symbol of truth James Russell Lowell The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light Matthew Arnold Light is the first of painters There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures James Thurber Literature is the immortality of speech August Wilhelm von Schlegel The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Literature is the orchestration of platitudes Thornton Wilder A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself Don Marquis Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice Cyril Connolly Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree Ezra Pound Literature is news that stays news Ezra Pound Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money Jules Renard Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason André Gide Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature Ralph Waldo Emerson Logic is the anatomy of thought John Locke Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge Benjamin Jowett Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice Elbert Hubbard Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis John Dewey Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence Joseph Wood Krutch Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic William E Gladstone Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities Lord Dunsany The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it Bernard de Voto I was never less alone than when by myself Edward Gibbon The surest cure for vanity is loneliness Thomas Wolfe The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence Thomas Wolfe Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone Paul Tillich In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely Geoffrey Francis Fisher People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges Joseph F Newton Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative Oliver Goldsmith Loquacity and lying are cousins German Proverb Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed Sir Walter Raleigh He who talks much cannot talk well Carlo Goldoni They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say Matthew Prior No fool can be silent at a feast Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms William Shakespeare The cheerful loser is the winner Elbert Hubbard It's the good loser who finally loses out Kin Hubbard When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost German Motto No evil is without its compensation The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it Richard Whately Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old John Ciardi There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies François de La Rochefoucauld All mankind loves a lover Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination Voltaire If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving Anonymous Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies John Donne There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish Alfred Adler To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave Mahatma Gandhi The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost Gilbert K. Chesterton Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late Douglas Jerrold I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation Samuel Osgood He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals Benjamin Franklin First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it George Bernard Shaw I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love Henry Ward Beecher We are shaped and fashioned by what we love Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning Thornton Wilder Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another H. L. Mencken Love gives itself; it is not bought Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all Alfred, Lord Tennyson Loyalty is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation Henry S Commager Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul Mark Twain Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union Rufus Choate Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice Woodrow Wilson My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right Carl Schurz Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living Josiah Royce Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit R. E. Shay It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck Joseph Conrad Chance favors the prepared mind Louis Pasteur So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else Don Marquis If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? Stanislaw J Lec Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold Yiddish Proverb As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for Josh Billings Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success Anonymous I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? Jean Cocteau Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect Ralph Waldo Emerson A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck James A Garfield The only sure thing about luck is that it will change Wilson Mizner War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind John Crowne We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities Oscar Wilde Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind Henry David Thoreau Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor Henry Home On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired Edward Young Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind Albert Einstein Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries Oliver Wendell Holmes Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins Edward Payson Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well Samuel Butler Never chase a lie Let it alone, and it will run itself to death I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it Lyman Beecher The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else George Bernard Shaw One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie Corneille Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all Oliver Wendell Holmes You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says Aristippus The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe H. L. Mencken I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy Samuel Butler There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it William James "Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe" St. Theresa of Lisieux "The wise learn many things from their enemies" Aristophanes, The Birds "In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed" Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays "We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it" William Hazlitt "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them" Alfred Adler "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing" George Bernard Shaw "Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the one who makes the same mistake twice" Dr. William J. "This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle:we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live" Gen. Omar Bradley "The graveyards are full of indispensable men" Charles De Gaulle "All warfare is based on deception Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him Anger his general and confuse him Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance" "There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity" Gen. Douglas MacArthur "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor" Vince Lombardi "People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it" Howard W. Newton "Production is not the application of tools to material, but of logic to work" Peter Drucker "If two men agree on everything, you can be sure one of them is doing the thinking" Lyndon Baines Johnson "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function" F. Scott Fitzgerald "Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of Reason, I'm very much afraid you will never really see the point" Hafiz of Shiraz "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator" Francis Bacon, Essays "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly We are what we repeatedly do Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit" Aristotle [384-322 B C] "Life is made up of small pleasures Happiness is made up of those tiny successes the big ones come too infrequently If you don't have all of those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything" Norman Lear "As we come around and take our places at the table, a moment to remember & reflect upon our wealth Here's to loving friends and family, here's to being able to gather here together in good company and health And may the light of Love be shining deep within your spirit, May the torch of Mercy clear the path and show the way, May the horn of Plenty sound so everyone can hear it, May the light of Love be with you every day" "Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things" Elise Boulding "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience" "We say that we cannot bear our troubles but when we get to them we bear them" Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai "No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated" Ellen Glasgow "General notions are generally wrong" Lady Mary Wortley Montagu "One who finds no satifaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere" La Rochefoucauld "Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire" Anwar El-Sadat "No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time" Robert Half "It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up" Charles Sorenson "We cannot live only for ourselves A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects" Herman Melville "Home is not where you live, but where they understand you" Christian Morgenstern "Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time" Hebrew proverb "Change cannot be avoided Change provides the opportunity for innovation It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity" Keshavan Nair "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult" "Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said" Thomas ˆ Kempis "The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it" David Searles "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas" Linus Pauling "While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior" Henry C Link "Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years If something is wrong, fix it if you can But train yourself not to worry Worry never fixes anything" Mary Hemingway "There's an alternative There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways - it's a different way" David Carradine "It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish" Aeschylus "He knew that insofar as one denies what is, one is posessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void" Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven "If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth" Hans Reichenbach "Let honor be as strong to us an obligation as necessity is to others" Pliny the Elder "First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do" Epictetus "If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself" Haitian proverb "You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" Robert Louis Stevenson "Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities:the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates" Dr A Lawrence Lowell "Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast You can't wait to do your exercises You can't wait to put on your clothes You can't wait to get out - and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot" George Burns "If you want to make God laugh, tell him you have plans" Sister Emerita "Finish what you begin Public confidence in government isn't guaranteed; it has to be earned I know of no other way to earn the trust and cooperation of the public than first, to say what you intend to do, and second, to do it" Neil Goldschmidt "Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it" La Rochefoucauld "A lot of it is the money, but I'd be playing if I was making $150,000" Reggie Jackson "Maybe you're right, boss It all depends on the way you look at it Look, one day I had gone to a little village An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree 'What, grandad!' I exclaimed 'Planting an almond tree?' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die 'I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute 'Which of us was right, boss?" Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek "The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them" Benjamin Jowett "Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire" Arab proverb "Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong" Baltasar Gracian "It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door" Publilius Syrus "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance" cummings "People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it" Lee Iacocca "You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about - the more you have left when anything happens" Ethel Barrymore "With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble Courage is the foundation of integrity" Keshavan Nair "Everyone thinks his sack heaviest" George Herbert "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success" John D. Rockefeller, Sr "Dreams are renewable No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born" Dr Dale E Turner "Grant me the Serenity to prioritize things I cannot delegate, the Courage to say No when I need to, and the Wisdom to know when to go home" "Knowing is not enough; we must apply Willing is not enough; we must do" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits" Mark Twain "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best 'You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary" Sir Winston Churchill "Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something?That's like me I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing" Albert P Ryder "The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces" "Shoot for the moon Even if you miss you'll land among the stars" Les Brown "As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope" Ursula K. LeGuin "It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes You will not live long enough to make them all yourself" Adm. Hyman G Rickover "There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty" Wendell Berry on kinds of cultural change "If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished" Ed Lindeman (heard at the American Planners Assn conference, quoted by Glen Hiemstra) "No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming" Charles E Wilson "Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you'll see farther" Anonymous" it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you" Woodrow Wilson "If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?" Thomas Henry Huxley "Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it" Cardinal Newman "A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday" Alexander Pope "A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side" Anne Morrow Lindberg "Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification" Martin H Fischer " On some hill of despair the bonfire you kindle can light the great sky - though it's true, of course, to make it burn you have to throw yourself in" Galway Kinnell "What do we need in our Todays? Quiet where faith can grow, songs that blossom hope, reading that remembers love, honest words to untangle a small length of knotty existence, gifts offering service of the heart" Maren C Tirabassi (paraphrased) "I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice" Clint Eastwood "Quality doesn't improve by sitting on things" Val Fitch "In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Network, at CUE "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power" "You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time" Charles F. Kettering "It seems to me like this it's not a terrible thing I mean, it may be terrible, but it's not damaging, it's not poisoning to do without something one really wants What's really terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better" Doris Lessing "People think love is an emotion Love is good sense" Ken Kesey "Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?" Bernice Fitz-Gibbon "To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer" George Bernard Shaw "Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant This is like driving a car by looking in the rear view mirror" Herb Brody "Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain" Mary Catherine Bateson "My purposes are the geography that marks out my line of travel toward the person I want to be" Alice Koller "You are not thinking You are merely being logical" Niels Bohr to Albert Einstein "It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and of the soul of society coincides with the pauperization of the environment One is the cause and the reflection of the other" Paolo Soleri "Forget about likes and dislikes They are of no consequence Just do what must be done This may not be happiness, but it is greatness" George Bernard Shaw "The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts That is where the battle should be fought" Mahatma Gandhi "Vision without action is merely a dream Action without vision just passes the time Vision with action can change the world" Joel Barker "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for:it is a thing to be achieved" William Jennings Bryant "Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try" "Very seldom will a person give up on himself He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation" Hugh Prather, Notes On Love and Courage "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity" Octavio Paz "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but, after a while, knows something" Wilson Mizner "I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean" G. K. Chesterton "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn" Alvin Toffler "Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him But a day comes when he begins to care that he does notcheat his neighbor Then all goes well He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun" Ralph Waldo Emerson "You are the lens in the beam You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does "If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means" Dag Hammarskjold "For one human being to love another:that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation" Rainer Maria Rilke "A new idea is delicate It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow" Charles Brower "It may be that those who do most, dream most" Stephen Leacock "Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun" Ruth Westheimer "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another" Luciano de Crescenzo "Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases" John W. Raper "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others" We are not our own Earth forms us, human leaves on nature's growing vine, Fruit of many generations, seeds of life divine We are not alone Earth names us: past and present, peoples near and far, family and friends and strangers show us who we are Therefore let us make thanksgiving, and with justice, willing and aware, give to earth, and all things living, legacies of care Brian Wren, 1987 "Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings" Alice Miller "On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow" Friedrich Nietzsche "Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground" Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, ca "We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job" William Feather "One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints" "Mistakes are the portals of discovery" James Joyce "Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out" Art Linkletter "If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room" Anita Koddick "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know:the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve" Albert Schweitzer "The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it" G- K. Chesterton "We cannot live only for ourselves A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects" Herman Melville "If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them" "One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth" Friedrich Hebbel "You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair" Chinese proverb "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none" Shakespeare "Make your bargain before beginning to plow" Arabic proverb "We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings" Abraham Maslow "The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!" Doris Day "There are no facts, only interpretations" Friedrich Nietzsche "Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world" Hans Margolius "Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase - that's what wild geese are for" "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business" Tom Robbins "Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it" The Midrash (thanks to Anu the Wordsmith for this one) "Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into your answers" Rainer Maria Rilke "We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars" Alan Chadwick "Everything we come across is to the point" John Cage Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change" Marcel Proust "Since when was genius respectable?" Elizabeth Barrett Browning "When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight" Michael Bridge "Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier The way it actually works is the reverse You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want" Margaret Young "You will neverfind time for anything If you want time you must make it" Charles Buxton We want the facts to fit the preconceptions When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions" Jessamyn West "The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong" Wilson Mizner "If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you" Charles Gordon "Words lead to deeds They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness" Saint Teresa "If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!" George Jessel "In all human affairs, the odds are always six to five against" Damon Runyon "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood" Marie Curie "A crank is someone with a new idea - until it catches on" Mark Twain "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught" Henry L. Mencken "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence "Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation The foundation of such a method is love" Martin Luther King, December 11, 1964 "Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!" Derwood Fincher "People only see what they are prepared to see" Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you can't return a favor, pass it on" Louise Brown "A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success" Cullen Hightower "Ideologies separate us Dreams and anguish bring us together" Eugene Ionesco "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do" Willa Cather "Forget your enemies It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems" Michael J. "The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works" William Strong "I like to listen I have learned a great deal from listening carefully Most people never listen" Ernest Hemingway "If we don't change, we don't grow If we don't grow, we aren't really living" Gail Sheehy "The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses Successes have many fathers, failures have none" Philip Caldwell "Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin" Hermann Hesse "What does the Lord require of you? To seek kindness, do justice, and walk humbly with your God" The Bible, Book of Micah, Ch. 6/Verse 8 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing" Oscar Wilde "Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage" Charles Luckman "Good questions outrank easy answers" Paul A. Samuelson "People say:idle curiosity The one thing curiosity cannot be is idle" Leo Rosten "There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing" Lord Chesterfield Hope is a state of mind, not of the world Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good Vaclav Havel "The grace of God means something like: Here is your life You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you Here is the world Beautiful and terrible things will happen Don't be afraid I am with you Nothing can ever separate us It's for you I created the universe I love you "There's only one catch Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too" Frederick Buechner "One that would have the fruit must climb the tree" Thomas Fuller "It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory" French management saying "We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time" T. S. Eliot "To do two things at once is to do neither" Publilius Syrus "How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it" Marcus Aurelius "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice" Baruch Spinoza "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved" Helen Keller This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one George Bernard Shaw "Next week there can't be any crisis My schedule is already full" Herry Kissinger "First we will be best, then we will be first" Grant Tinker "Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time" John Donne "One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas That isprobably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life" Etty Hilsum "I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people ' People say different things:so do instincts Our instincts are at war Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest C. S. Lewis,The Abolition of Man "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr "The problem is not that there are problems The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem" Theodore Rubin "A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools" Spanish proverb "It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past Nothing is as far away as one minute ago" Jim Bishop "Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly" Langston Hughes "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life But there was always some obstacle in the way Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid Then life would begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life" Fr. Alfred D'Souza "You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time" M. Scott Peck "Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards, make the city, but men able to use their opportunity" "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits" Thomas Edison "The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect" Robert Louis Stevenson I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown Woody Allen Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else Anonymous Do not regret growing older It is a privilege denied to many Anonymous If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over Anonymous Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once Anonymous I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate Lady Astor How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I putt them down John Aubrey What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork Pearl Bailey, singer Pandemonium did not reign; it poured John Kendrick Bangs If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner Tallulah Bankhead, actress Tallulah Bankhead, last word You will find my last words in the blue folder Max Beerbohm, last words Applaud friends, the comedy is over Ludwig van Beethoven, last words I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph Shirley Temple Black, actress, singer, and US ambassador That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happinesss is assured Ambrose Bierce, (1842-1914) When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us Alexander Graham Bell, american inventor Ability is nothing without opportunity Napoleon Bonaparte Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television Rita Mae Brown Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all Dale Carnegie How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong Because someday in your life you will have been all of these George Washington Carver, american inventor and horticulturist It's a long time since I drank champagne Anton Checkov, last words The more you study, the more you find out you don't know, but the more you study, the closer you come Cozy Cole By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest Confucius Public behavior is merely private character writ large Stephen R. Covey, author, self-help speaker In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies Winston Churchill You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics Benjamin Disraeli, statesman Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys Fyodor Dostoyevsky It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data Arthur Conan Doyle, english author when you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth Arthur Conan Doyle, english author Everything that can be invented has been invented Charles Duell, Dir US Patent Office, 1899 We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and industrialist To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and industrialist Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and industrialist Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results I know several thousand things that won't work Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and industrialist Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and industrialist It's very beautiful over there Thomas Edison, last words The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources Albert Einstein This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher Our best thoughts come from others Ralph Waldo Emerson So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours Ralph Waldo Emerson Men are what their mothers made them Ralph Waldo Emerson To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth amd Sun But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings Clifton Fadiman Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse! Derwood Fincher It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it Malcolm S. While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time or dreaming Lee De Forest, 1926 Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of Benjamin Franklin Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late Benjamin Franklin Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity Sigmund Freud The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization Sigmund Freud There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible John Galsworthy, English author If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it James A. Garfield, US President Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be Jose Ortega y Gasset When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings Harold Geneen, from Managing Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream Kahlil Gibran Knowing is not enough; we must apply Willing is not enough; we must do More light! Goethe, last words Every absurdity has a champion to defend it Oliver Goldsmith I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink Adm William Halsey The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people Lucille S. My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way Ernest Hemingway Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny John Oliver Hobbes Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt Herbert Hoover I don't think I shall ever get over this Leigh Hunt, last words It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word Andrew Jackson I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy Gen. Stonewall Jackson The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling Douglas Jerrold I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult Samuel Johnson My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there Charles F. Kettering There is a woman at the begining of all great things Alphonse de Lamartine Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful Ann Landers, author The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it Doug Larson Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible Doug Larson Power corrupts Absolute power is kind of neat John Lehman, US secretary of the navy Life is what happens while you are making other plans John Lennon, singer and songwriter When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil Max Lerner Everything you see I owe to spaghetti Sophia Loren, actress 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 Every man is the architect of his own life He builds it just the w