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Jake's Quote of the Day Archive
I have been collecting quotes since I was seventeen in 1984. I get them from reading books, magazines, newspapers, talking to people, surfing the web, watching TV and movies, and all kinds of other sources. I have collected the quotes listed below over the years because I find them to be profoundly interesting and insightful. In a certain sense, they are a record of my personal, intellectual and spiritual growth. In many ways I consider these quotes to be my greatest treasure! I used to send out quotes to my friends via email from 1999 to 2004, and thus they are marked as such. In 2004 it became a bit overwhelming, so now I simply add them in chronological order. I hope you enjoy them!!! Jake Year 1999 1. We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. —T.S. Elliot [Jake's Favorite: Ah! The profound cycle of life] 2. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. —Albert Einstein 3. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. —Goethe 4. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. —Martin Luther King Jr. [Jake's Favorite] 5. I believe that children are the future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they posses inside. Give them a sense of pride. Let the children's laughter remind us of how we used to be. —Whitney Houston (The Greatest Love) 6. A day without laughing is a wasted day. —Pablo Picasso [Jake's Favorite] 7. Your best friends should be words because they will never leave you. —Anon [Jake's Favorite] 8. God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. —James Barrie 9. A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. —Mark Twain 10. A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops. —Henry Adams 11. Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor...Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. —Mother Theresa [Jake's Favorite] 12. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. —Albert Einstein 13. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. —Chinese Proverb 14. 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 [Jake's Favorite] 15. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. —Wayne Gretsky [Jake's Favorite] 16. All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible. —T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) [Jake's Favorite] 17. Everything worthwhile is risky. —Clint Eastwood 18. 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 19. A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. —Chinese Proverb [Jake's Favorite] 20. To whom much is given, much is required. —The Bible 21. A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. —Anon 22. 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 23. The word impossible is not in my dictionary. —Napoleon Bonaparte 24. Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known in the world. —Mathew Arnold [Jake's Favorite: This is the best defention of culture that I have ever come across] 25. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 26. Service to others is the rent I pay for my room in Heaven. —Muhammad Ali 27. The Mothers heart is the classroom of the child. —Anon [Jake's Favorite: Very Deep] 28. The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever galling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. —John Muir 29. Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. —Martin Luther King Jr. 30. I'm a wonderful housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. —Zsa Zsa Gabor [Jake's Favorite: This is funny...and you have to love those gorgeous Hungarian babes with the sexy accent...Darlink...] 31. Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow. —Abraham Lincoln [Jake's Favorite: I love this quote and I live by these words] 32. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. —Walter Winchell [Jake's Favorite] 33. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. —Gilda Radner 34. When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. —Patrick Overton. [Jake's Favorite: So True!!!!] 35. A good conscience is a continual Christmas. —Benjamin Franklin 36. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. —Confucius 37. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity! —Albert Einstein 38. 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) 39. If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies. —Anon 40. People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. —Elizabeth Ross [Jake's Favorite] 41. 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 [Jake's Favorite] 42. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding you can know a lot about something without understanding it. —Charles Kettering [Jake's Favorite: This is one of the most profound quotes I have ever come across] 43. If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. —Vincent van Gogh 44. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. —Albert Einstein [Jake's Favorite] 45. "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The one thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes." —Charles Swindoll [Jake's Favorite: Super deep and super profound!!!] 46. The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. —Albert Einstein 47. "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." —Albert Einstein 48. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. —Albert Einstein 49. On Relativity: When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. —Albert Einstein 50. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. —Edith Lovejoy Pierce Year 2000 51. Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed. —Murial Rukeyser, Poet (1913-1980) 52. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? —Stephen Levine 53. I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —Pablo Picasso 54. If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? —Steven Wright, comedian, 1994. 55. It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. —James Ullman [Jake's Favorite: This is one of the most profound truisms I have ever come across] 56. Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. —Jimmy Buffet 57. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success. —Winston Churchill 58. Information is the currency of democracy. —Thomas Jefferson 59. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. —W. Feather 60. The first and the best victory is to conquer self. —Plato 61. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. —Mother Teresa 62. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. —Malcon Forbes [Jake's Favorite: Malcom was another quote collector and seeker of wisdom] 63. All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. —Greg Arnold 64. He who speaks does not know. He who knows does not speak. —Lao-Tzu (Tao Te Ching) 65. The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books—a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. —Albert Einstein [Jake's Favorite: With all due respect to the great master–I disagree. I actually think the human mind is capable of grasping the Universe...in large part due to all that Einstein contributed to scientific knowledge. I love this qoute so much] 66. There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. —Ben Zander [Jake's Favorite] 67. The real secret of success is enthusiasm. —Walter Chrysler 68. There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all. —Anon 69. The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven. —Og Mandino 70. He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers. —Proverb 71. Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." -Lewis Carroll 72. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. —Socrates (Plato's Apology) 73. These are the good old days. —Carly Simon (Anticipation) 74. When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. —Japanese Proverb 75. There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. —Art Turock 76. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. —Buddha 77. It is better to believe than to disbelieve, in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility. —Albert Einstein 78. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. —Abraham Lincoln 79. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a big ship. —BenjaminFranklin 80. Insight is a shift in boundaries. —Neil Larson 81. Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usuallyit's reading his own handwriting. —Norman Collie 82. There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. —Maya Angelou 83. You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. —Navajo Proverb 84. When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. —Anon [Jake's Favorite] 85. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. —Albert Einstein 86. Sarcasm is the recourse of a weak mind. —Anon 87. Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. —Al Bernstein 88. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. —Boris Yeltsin 89. If you think that you are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. —Anita Koddick 90. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. —Edith Sitwell 91. I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate. —George Burns 92. If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music. —Albert Einstein (What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.) 93. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. —Aeschylus 94. If you are able to state a problem, it can be solved. —Edwin H. Land, American inventor (of the Polaroid Camera) 95. Persistence is to the character of man what carbon is to steel. —Napoleon Hill 96. ...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition... —Amelia Barr 97. Would you like me to give you a formula for...success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side. —Thomas Watson 98. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. —Muriel Strode 99. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —W.B.Yeats 100. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. —Og Mandino 101. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. —Vidal Sassoon 102. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. —Babe Ruth 103. Keep in mind that if the foundation is weak, the rest of the structure will be affected accordingly. —Anon 104. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. —Confucius 105. There is something about the beginning of spring that almost forces us to look up, get out, and remember that we are part of nature. —Anon 106. Don't focus on the failure. Focus on what you can learn from it. —Tony Robbins 107. When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. —Thomas Edison 108. There is probably no greater power than the power to follow through on what you say you want to do. —Anonymous 109. Information is not knowledge. —Albert Einstein 110. Time is long and life is short; so live it!" —Matt Gillam 111. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. —James Russell Lowell 112. I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. —Louisa May Alcott 113. We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. —Lee Iococca 114. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. —Alexander Smith 115. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 116. Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise. —Phillips Brooks 117. Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. —Nathaniel Emmons 118. Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. —Kahlil Gibran 119. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. —Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 120. Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. —Pearl S. Buck 121. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goals; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. —W. W. Ziege 122. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. —Ralph Waldo Emerson 123. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. —Hannah More 124. When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. —Buckminster Fuller [Jake's Favorite] 125. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary new material, but the warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. —Carl Jung 126. Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. —Zig Ziglar 127. There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in. —Erma Bombeck 128. It's a race between the lock-makers and the lock-pickers. —Eric Schmidt (Novell chairman referring to the web and hackers) 129. So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we had the key. —The Eagles (Already Gone) 130. Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. —Ralph Charell 131. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. —Viktor Frankl 132. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. —Albert Einstein 133. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap! —Peter McWilliams 134. Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. —Tennessee Williams 135. The best time to handle a problem is before it ever comes up. —Anthony Robbins 136. Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others." —Francis Bacon 137. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. —Carson, Rachel 138. The attitudes of your friends are like a button on an elevator. They will either take you up or they will take you down. —Alexander Lockhart 139. If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination. —Napoleon Hill 140. One forgives to the degree that one loves. —Frangois duc de La Rochefoucauld 141. If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive... — Eleonora Duse, 1859-1924 Italian Actress 142. As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind —Isabelle Holland 143. And yes the reason I love quotes, it gets us back to the way life used to be and should be and we must be reminded as life is becoming very stressful, very busy, families are no longer what they used to be and I love to be reminded to slow down and smell the roses think about where you are going and what you are doing. They truly give life perspective. —Bobbi Fillmore 144. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. —Henri Bergson 145. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. —Sandra Carey 146. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. —Winston Churchill 147. Happiness is expectation management. —David Cox 148. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. —Anon 149. You know you have to go through hell before you can get to Heaven. —Steve Miller 150. Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. —Sydney J. Harris 151. Attitude is the mind's paint brush. It can color any situation. —Alexander Lockhart 152. Every detail is important. Where do you have a meeting? What is the surrounding environment? People who don't think about these things have a harder time in business. It's got to be the right place. It's got to be the right color. It's got to be the right choice. Everything has to be strategized. You have to know where you're going to come out before you go in. Otherwise, you lose. —Michael Ovitz 153. With a dream in your heart you're never alone. —Dion Warwick (Do you know the way to San Jose) 154. Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. —Albert Einstein 155. Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. —Anon 156. What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? —Bette Greene 157. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. —Ralph Waldo Emerson 158. The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten. —Seymour Jaron 159. I would not swim three quarters of the way across the river just to decide I could not make it and try to swim back. —Brad Ellman 160. Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function. —John Pfeiffer 161. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. —Dwight Eisenhower 162. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper. —Anon 163. Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light. —Jennie Jerome Churchill 164. There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants, more than anything else, to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are-and have always been. —Joseph Brooks 165. I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. —Eugene Forsey 166. The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult. —Marquise du Deffand 167. The truth of the matter is that a rude person with a mobile phone in their hand is a rude person with a mobile phone in their hand. —Jeffrey Nelson 168. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. —Robert Schuller 169. A positive attitude won't let you do anything. But it will let you do everything better than a negative attitude will. —Zig Ziglar 170. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. —Abraham Lincoln 171. A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. —English Proverb 172. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. —Albert Einstein 173. I haven't failed, I've found ten thousand ways that don't work. —Albert Einstein 174. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. —Alphonse Kerr 175. Keep company with those who make your better. —English Saying 176. Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. —Richard E. Byrd 177. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. —Abraham Lincoln 178. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. —Buddha 179. ...students must practice writing regularly if they are to become good writers. We counsel continual revision and show students how to do it. We believe in the truth behind the remark of a French writer that he never finished a piece of writing; when he faced a deadline, he abandoned his work to the printer, but he could always revise it some more if he had the time. —Richard Marius, and Harvey S. Wiener. The McGraw-Hill College Handbook. Second Edition. 180. Minds are like parachutes—they only function when open. —Thomas Dewa [Jake's Favorite: Profoundly True!!!] 181. He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. —Confucius 182 You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. —Smeltzer, Ruth 183. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. —Benjamin Franklin 184. If you can do it; it ain't bragging. —Dizzy Dean (Baseball Player) 185. The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going. —David Jordan 186. "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." —Muhammad Ali 187. Worry is like a rocking chair—it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. —Dorothy Galyean [Jake's Favorite] 188. There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. —Josiah Gilbert Holland 189. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars. —Les Brown 190. It all has to make sense: I am not the only one making strategic decisions. But you need a strategy that can fit inside one brain, and the buck stops here. I am charged with making sure that every one understands the strategy, and is motivated by it. —Bill Gates 191. The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. —John Foster Dulles 192. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. —Martin Luther King 193. Design is thinking made visual. —Saul Bass [Jake's Favorite: In my opoinion this is the most profound and precise definition of design] 194. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. —Harriet Beecher Stowe 195. Power comes not from knowledge kept, but from knowledge shared. A companies values and reward system should reflect that idea. —Bill Gates 196. Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. —Albert Einstein. 197. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they make them. —George Bernard Shaw 198. I am a great believer in luck, I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it. —Thomas Jefferson 199. Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. —Maya Angelou 200. Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. —William James 201. The best way out of a difficulty is through it. —Anon 202. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. —Derek Bok 203. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say; here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. —Martin Luther King Jr. 204. An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. —Charles Kettering 205. The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. —Anon 206. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving, but does not make any progress. —Alfred A. Montapert 207. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —Pablo Picasso 208. I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten — happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. —Ueland, Brenda 209. We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons... — Alfred E. Newman 210. It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. —Albert Schweitzer 211. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. —Colette 212. Sometimes (when surfing) you reach a point of being so coordinated, so completely balanced, that you feel you can do anything - anything at all. At times like this I find I can run up to the front of the board and stand on the nose when pushing out through a broken wave; I can goof around, put myself in an impossible position and pull out of it, simply because I feel happy. An extra bit of confidence can carry you through, and you can do things that are just about impossible. —Midget Farrelly 213. A positive thinker learns to knock the "t" off the "can't." —Anon 214. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. —Napoleon Hill 215. I used to say that politics was the second oldest profession, and I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first. —Ronald Reagan, one year before he became the president. 216. Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. —Pope John XXIII 217. There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost. —Franz Kafka (1883-1924) 218. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. —George C. Lichtenberg 219. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. —Marilyn Vos Savant 220. What could be more important than your thoughts? asked the Mind, nothing as long as you think with your heart, replied the Soul. —Anon 221. Failure is usually the line of least persistence. —Wilfred Beaver 222. Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. —Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Poet, Dramatist, and Novelist 223. Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. —Schopenhauer, Arthur 224. People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. —Saint Augustine 225. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. —Anon 226. A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery 227. What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning. —Proverb 228. He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need to be forgiven. —George Herbert 229. A genius only makes the same mistake once. —Kevin Roberts (Satchi & Satchi add agency CEO) 230. Never think of the consequences of failing, you will always think of a negative results. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts! —Michael Jordan 231. It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it! —Somerset Maugham 232. The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. —Roy L. Smith 233. The fountain of youth is to love your work. I have a passion for what I do. —Sumner Redstone 234. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. —Anon 235. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. —Albert Einstein 236. Good artists copy. Great artists steal. —Pablo Picasso 237. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. —Lauren Bacall 238. One person with courage makes a majority. —Andrew Jackson 239. The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. —Alexander Graham Bell 240. All progress involves risk; you can't steal home with your foot on third. —Anon 241. A good book, you never finish; you read it over and over again. —Carmen Luz Herlihy 242. It is not the critic who counts. The credit belongs to the man who is actually is in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust, sweat and blood. Who at best knows the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly. So that he shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. The greatest risk is not taking one. —Anon 243. The ways are many. The end is one. —James Kahn 244. A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place. —H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 245. An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. —Charles Bukowsky 246. If you don't love what you do, going to work is like going to jail every day, and most people spend their lives in jail. —Cindy Ehrlich 247. The moment man first picked up a stone or a branch to use as a tool, he altered irrevocably the balance between him and his environment. . . . While the number of these tools remained small, their effect took a long time to spread and to cause change. But as they increased, so did their effects: the more the tools, the faster the rate of change. [-James Burke, (Connections)] 247.5 Knowledge is the ultimate power tool. —Bill Gates 248. My religion is to do good, and my country is the world. —Anon. 249. There are no accidents. —Miles Davis 250. He, who travels alone, travels furthest. —Proverb 250.5 I have a very special quote to share with you today. On Saturday evening I was at a cocktail party that some close friends parent's were having to celebrate their upcoming wedding. My friend, Melissa Marshall, soon to be Mrs. Melissa Barber was having the party thrown in her honor along with her fiancé, and close pal of mine, Patrick Barber. Melissa's uncle is the famous aerial photographer, Robert Cameron. Mr. Cameron is 89 years young and is famous for his Above books, which include, Above San Francisco, Above Paris, and Above New York. I was having a fascinating conversation with the old boy about photography as an art form. He told me about an argument he had in 1970 with his contemporary and close friend, Ansel Adams. They were arguing about whether photography was an art form or not. Robert was arguing that it was not. Adams quickly changed Cameron's mind when he responded, "Photography is the greatest invention for recording and communicating, but if someone receives an emotional response from one of my images, then to him it is an art form." There, you have it! Precious insight between two of the greatest photographers in history. (QOD 10-9-2000) 251. Success should be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. —Anon. 252. The unknown always yields to the those with the will to discover. —Anon 253. The most expensive possession you can have is a closed mind. It will cost you all your life. —Ross Jeffries 254. Warren Buffet was right again. Cash flow, profitability and earnings matter. Launch parties and sock puppets don't. —Michael Dell 255. Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. —Anonymous 256. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. —Mark Twain 257. Blessed is the man with the wisdom of the ages and the heart of a child. –Anonymous 258. Show me a beautiful woman, and I will show you a man who takes her for granted. —Anon 259. You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. —Sam Levenson 260. One person with an belief, is just that; one person with a belief. But when two people share an idea, you have a political movement. —Anon 261. If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation If there is order in the nation, there will be Peace in the World. —Chinese Proverb 262. If we found out that we all had five minutes to live, every phone line in the world would be tied up with people calling other people to stumble about how much they love them. So don't wait until we only have five minutes to live—do it now.—Trisha Wright 263. A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. —Joseph Roux (Meditations of a Parish Priest) 264. If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. —Chinese proverb 265. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. —Mark Twain 266. If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight-room house. If a man got possession of all that gold ,-- billions of dollars worth, he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience, or a sense of eternity. —Charles Banning Year 2001 267. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. —Buddha 268. Beauty is something we all admire, but beauty without charm is like a meal without spices. —Bernard Chevallier. 269. The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream. —Anon 270. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. —Anon 270. People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. —Neil Postman 271.Twenty years from now you will be disappointed by things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. —Mark Twain 272. I think there are two kinds of people when it comes to wisdom: people who regurgitate—like Parakeets, and those who are truly wise because they profoundly relate to wisdom. —Humberto Ruiz Jr. 273. Women think from North to South, while Men think from South to North. —Maria Constantino 274. Most people are as happy as they decide to be. —Abraham Lincoln 275. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. —Thomas Edison 276. Genius is knowing how far, too far to go. —Dustin Hoffman 277. Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? —Rose Kennedy (Times to Remember) 278. The definition of success—To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded. —Ralph Waldo Emerson 279. "With many companies we start, we don't even do the figures in advance. We just feel there's room in the market. . . .We try to make the figures work out after the event." —Richard Branson, Virgin Group 280. "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence therefore is not an act, but a habit" —Aristotle 281. Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. —Anon 282. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. —B.F. Skinner. 283. Failure is the tuition you pay for success. —Walter Brunell 284. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. —Thomas Jefferson 285. "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." —Coco Chanel 286. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. —Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 287. Almost every man has a strong natural desire of being valued and esteemed by the respect of his species, but I am concerned and grieved to see how few fall into the right and only infallible method of becoming so. That laudable ambition is too commonly misapplied and often ill employed. Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous. Nor is it strange; since men of virtue are so rare, so very rare to be found. If we were as industrious to become good as to make ourselves great, we should become really great by being good, and the number of valuable men would be much increased; but it is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain, that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. —Benjamin Franklin 288. I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with; and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. In the matter of diet, I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me, until one or the other of us got the best of it. I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. As for drinking, when the others drink I like to help. I have ever taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. —Mark Twain 289. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. — Rumi 290. "The Song of the River" written by William Randolph Hearst in 1941 at his Wyntoon Estate on the McCloud River in Northern California foothills of Mount Shasta: The snow melts on the mountain 291. God is a comedian playing to an audience too scared to laugh. —Voltaire 292. "Isn't it great that all the people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there!" —Herb Caen 293. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. —Henry David Thoreau 294. "There is no one who can take our place. Each of us weaves a strand in the web of creation. There is no one who can weave that strand for us. What we have to contribute is both unique and irreplaceable. What we withhold from life is lost to life. The entire world depends upon our individual choices." —Duane Elgin 295. In the end, a vision without the ability to execute is probably a hallucination. —Stephen Case, Chairman, AOL Tim Warner. 296. The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee. —Anonymous 297. You can go to France, but you will never be a Frenchman. You can go to Japan, but you will never be Japanese. You can go to China, but you will never be Chinese. You can go Germany, but you will never be German. But anyone can come to America from anywhere and become an American. —Ronald Reagan (During a speech commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.) 298. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. —Peter Drucker 299. If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. —Jean-Paul Sartre. 300. Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. —Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) 301. Friendship is love without wings. —Lord Byron 302. "Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 21 (1903). 303. "For a favor done is a favor received; and the debt is no more that the monetary sign of a social obligation. The ‘confidence’ its members have in the credit system is their trust in a social order. " —Anon. 304. "There are no accidents" —Miles Davis 305. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." —George Bernard Shaw 306. "Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. blind/deaf author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 20 (1903). 307. "The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), American blind/deaf author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 23 (1903). 308. "Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. blind/deaf author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 3, "Personality" (1903). 309. Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. —Hellen Keller, The open door, 1957 310. On Ancestry "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1903). 311. On Planning "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), U.S. general, Republican politician, president. One of Eisenhower's favorite maxims. Quoted by Richard Nixon in: Six Crises, "Krushchev" (1962). 312. "Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." —Dr. William Menninger. 313. "Age and experience will always beat out youth and inexperience." —Tonny Robbins 314. "He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers" —Proverb 315. "Repetition is the mother of skill" —Proverb 316. Persistence "Nothing in the world can take he place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." —Calvin Coolige 317. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." —Thomas Edison 318. "We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us." —Winston Churchill 319. "...Love is seldom what it seems, only other peoples dreams." —Frank Sinatra 320. "All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. "—Danny Thomas. 321. "I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's talent and the passion that count in success." —Ingrid Bergman 322. On The Arms Race "Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), U.S. general, Republican politician, president. Speech, April 1953, Washington, D.C. 323. "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." —Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-American theoretical physicist. Quoted in: News Chronicle (14 March 1949)." 324. "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." —Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born U.S. physicist. Motto for the astronomy building of Junior College, Pasadena, California. 325. "Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage." —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), U.S. general, Republican politician, president. Broadcast speech, 28 Jan. 1954 326. The first time I walked into a trophy shop, I looked around and thought to myself, 'this guy is good!" —Fred Wolf 327. Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.----Bertolt Brecht 328. Habit is stronger than love. —Umburto Ruiz 329. I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. —T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. Quoted in: New York Times (21 Sept. 1958) 330. "We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. author, lecturer. My Religion, pt. 1, ch. 6 (1927). 331. You look to the bottom of everything—it's money. —Sid Ceaser (On Charlie Rose) 332. Man has to be part of the action and passion of his times, or to be judged not to have lived. —Oliver Wendel Homes. (Philosopher and former Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ) 333. "I don't do favors—I gather debts" —Sicilian saying. (sent in By Chris Caen.) 334. The least expensive way, almost always ends up being the most expensive way. —Anon 335. Self righteousness has given way to situational ethics. —Anon 336. If you don't have dreams, they can't come true. —Anon 337. There is more to life than increasing its speed. —Gandhi 338. "I jes trying to get on without shovin' anybody, that's all." —Henry Fonda, "The Grapes of Wrath" 339. "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." —Archibald McLeish 340. Noting that the president recently said critics had "misunderestimated" him, Brown deadpanned: "They elected the symbol of ebonics to the presidency of this nation. There ain't no brother in Oakland, or anywhere else, that would run the phrase or mix up the words the way this cat does. It raises serious questions about whether he's really white."--At state Dem convention, Willie Brown cracks wise about President Bush's verbal tribulations. 341. "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." —John Steinbeck 342. "One should count each day a separate life." —Seneca 343. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. —Napoleon Hill 344. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (sent in by David Rosenthal) 345. "For me, the safest place is out on a limb." —Shirley MacLaine 346. Take care of the Luxuries, and the necessities will take care of themselves. —Frank Lloyd Wright. 347. "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island . . . and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life." —Walt Disney 348. "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." —Abraham Lincoln 349. Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system. —Stephen R. Covey 350. Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. —Dane Von Hurst 351. April hath put a spirit of youth in everything — William Shakespeare 352. "The most important thing is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well." —The Olympic Creed 353. You know, when you grow up in the suburbs of Sydney or Auckland or Newcastle, like Ridley or Jamie Bell, well, the suburbs of anywhere. You know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it's possible. —RussellCrowe 354. "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." —G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) 355. Hold fast to dreams, for If dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. —Langston Hughes 356. "I promise to keep on living as though I expect to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years, People grow old only by deserting their ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." —Douglas MacArthur 357. "He turns not back who is bound to a star." —Leonardo Da Vinci 358. "If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life." —Chris Evert 359. "The
best mirror is an old friend." —Anon. 361. "I expect to pass through this world but once; any good things that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creatures, let me show it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." —William Penn (1644-1718) 362. "All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." —Dale Carnegie 363. In order to make something that is truly new, you must first destroy something that is old. Be that an old building to make a new one, or a prevalent thought for a new paradigm. Columbus had to destroy the old world notion that the world was flat in order to create the new world notion that it was round. —Ryan Kuder 364. You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. —Brian Tracy 365. "He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty." —Lao-tzu 366. A man hears what he wants to hear and he disregards the rest. —Simon and Garfunkel (The Boxer) 367. "Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third." —Knute Rockne 368. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau 369. A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.--Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper 370. Everything that can be digital will be digital. —Bill Gates 371. There are two things that people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise. —Mary Kay Ash 372. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. —George MacDonald 373. "Few companies would have reached the going concern stage without the inflated confidence of their founders. Entrepreneurs tend to be like eighteen-year-old marines who believe the bullet will go right through them without hurt or harm." —Deaver Brown 374. The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going. —David S. Jordan 375. If you let others dictate your business, they will. —Anon 376. Lose your dreams and you will loose your mind. —Mick Jagger (Goodbye Ruby Tuesday) 377. "Whatever
you do, you need courage. Whatever 378. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." —Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948) 379.
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is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it." —Mother Teresa (1910-1997) 380. Men use love to get sex, women use sex to get love. —Anon 381. Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. —Michael Jordan 382. There are four things in life I need to live comfortably. As long as I can eat, sleep, shit and fuck well, everything is o.k. —Roger Bramy 383. "An optimist is the human personification of spring." —Susan J. Bissonette 384. Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. —Francis Hutcheson (Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue) 385. If you don't embrace your emotions, they will strangle you. —Joy Young 386. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. —Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher (1813-1855) 387. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. —Karl Wallenda 388. "Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." —Joaquin Setanti 389. Most of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. —Alexander Woollcott 390. If
you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." 391. "The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first." —Ginger Rogers 392. "To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life." —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author 393. I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. —Frank Sinatra 394. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." —Leonardo da Vinci 395. "Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue." —John Herschel, scientist (1792-1871) 396. Life should be a celebration! We are here for a short time and should make the most of it. —Hugh Hefner on his 75th birthday 397. There is no limit to what a man can do, or where he can go, if he does not mind who gets the credit. —Plaque on Ronald Reagan's Desk. 398. "The true gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity, who is himself humbled if necessity compels himself to another: who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company. A man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe." —John Walter Wayland 399. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities and the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Great men can't be ruled. —Ayn Rand 400. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. —Norman Vincent Peale 401. "The opportunity is often lost by deliberating." —Publius Syrus 402. "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." —John F. Kennedy 403. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." —Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) 404. Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. —Led Zeppelin (Over the hills and far away) 405. He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. —Thomas Fuller 406. In reality, I have not left home. My backyard has just grown bigger. Now the world is my backyard. –Buckminister Fuller, quoted by J. Baldwin 407. History is a lie, agreed upon. —Anon 408. "Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep" —Sigmund Freud 409. Intellectual property is the backbone of our economy. —Bill Gates, CEO Summit 2001 410. "Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain." —Diane De Pottiers 411. Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower. —S. H. Simmons 412. "The Dark Ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think." —Buckminster Fuller, from "Cosmography" (MacMillan, 1932) 413. The secret to success is to know something that nobody else knows. —Aristotle Onasis 414.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. —Galileo
Galilei
415. "I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation." —Mike Todd 416. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. —Robert Schuller 417. Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. —John Updike, "Rabbit at Rest" (DR) 418. Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. —Mary Tyler Moore |
