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Interesting Quotes
" Facts always get in the way of a good story " - A common saying in journalism
" When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Wayne Dyer
" Every artist was first an amateur " Ralph Waldo Emerson
" The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein
" Dropped objects seek the point of least accessibility " Dilbert Laws of Physics
" When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging " - Denis Healey
" Any solution eventually evolves into a problem "
" "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success "
" I have long believed that it is unnecessary to understand others, individuals or nationalities; one must, at the very least, simply tolerate others. Tolerance can lead to respect and, finally, to love. No one can ever really understand anyone else, but you can love them or at least accept them. " Jim Haynes
" When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature then temples, mosques and churches become important " - Krishnamurti
" Highly educated people are fools outside their areas of expertise " Baber from Little Mosque on the Prarie
" When you point one finger at someone, three are pointing back at you "
" Luxury is the enemy of observation " Paul Theroux
" Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open." -- Elmer G. Letterman
"Man spends money he does not have, on things he does not need, to create impressions that do not last, for people that do not care..."
" Worrying is like a rocking chair, it is a lot of motion but it doesn't get you anywhere "
" Hell is other people! " - Jean-Paul Sartre
" Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself " - George Bernard Shaw
" What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth " Richard Feynman
" Life is a Preparation for Death" -
" Good Judgement comes from Wisdom, Wisdom comes from Bad Judgement "
"The real world isn't black and white at all. Between pure organics and the reckless use of chemicals, there is a huge gray area, and this is where most farming is done." - 'Organic' label doesn't guarantee quality or taste
" The slow, steady and contnuous pursuit of excellence usually wins the competitive race "
" A true professional is one who does their best to convince you their services are not needed by you"
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." Bishop W.C. Magee
"- it's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it. But that's for my shrink, not for you.." Amy Poehler
" When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. " Voltaire
"...the general picture of social interaction....is one of people actively involved in many different dramas: people are constantly changing costumes and roles. learning and adhering to a complex matrix of conventional behavior, and working hard to maintain their performance in each ongoing situation without undermining or threatening their different behaviors in other situation" Erving Goffman
" Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. " - Thomas Edison
" Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the deeper in sinks into the mind. " Samuel Taylor Coleridge
" Politics is the art of making the gray appear black or white " - My own quote
" If you steal from one you are plagiarizing, If you steal from ten you are doing research, If you steal from one hundred you are an expert." --Delaney
" History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme " by Mark Twain
" What fits your busy schedule better, working out 1 hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day? " A cartoon I saw in my health club
" 70 percent of praise is sarcasm "
" The smaller the pie, the bigger the politics "
" When a salesperson with education meets a client with money, the salesperson ends up with the money and the client ends up with an education "
" Be Kind, for Everyone You Meet Is Fighting a Great Battle! " Philo of Alexandria
" I believe in the 50-percent theory. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they are worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing. It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future. " - Steve Porter from The 50-Percent Theory of Life
" Art reflects the way the world should be "
" Save the Planet, Kill Yourself" Church of Euthanasia bumpersticker
" The guy who talked toughest, bragged most, excelled in maneuvers, everyone's pick to be the top soldier in the company, was the first to break. While the soft talking kid who was hardly noticed in camp was the standout in combat. These are the cliches of war novels precisely because they are true. " - Steven Ambrose
" Savvy businessmen don't hire an attorney because they want a scribe. They hire an attorney to protect them from their own ignorance. The attorney's job is to identify risks, advise the client of them, and take measures to eliminate or reduce them. " - from a poster on misc.legal.moderated
" If you don't like something, then do something "
" If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas..." George B. Shaw
" Those who quickly want to become your best friend for receiving your favours , just as easily turn into your worse enemy when you stop giving. "
" I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." - Leo Rosten
" Live every day as though it were your last, learn every day as if you will live forever " Gandhi
" Engineering is doing for $1 what any fool can do for $10 "
" My grand-father was a coal miner so his son could be a doctor so I could be a poet "
" Two times zero is still zero and half of infinity is still infinity " - Understanding FEA Numbers
" The grand paradox of life is that one must suffer to enjoy it " - Scott Stoll
" Can you imagine what would happen if everyone will be a 'sensible' user of Frequent Flier miles? One will never be able to get an award. The whole system will lose value immensely once all user will start making sensible choices. " A user on flyertalk.com
" It is better to do nothing than be busy doing nothing " Lao Tzu
" There is nothing new under the sun "
" People only show their true colors when money is on the line "
" The fear of losing face is the strongest force that controls people's behavior. People will commit the most violent acts against humanity so long as their peers thinks nothing of it. "
" Criticism reveals more about the criticizer's ingorance than about the subject they are criticizing. "
" Too much of anything is never good "
" Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs " - Henry Ford
" When the ducks quack, feed them." Wall Street
" Experience makes an intelligent man wiser but a foolish man dumber "
" Cambodians believe we just rent this body, it is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave." Dith Pran
" The real story is often found not in the noise but in the silence " - American journalist, Thomas Friedman
" Free is more Expensive " - An Arab friend referring to 'free' hospitality
" When the logical appears illogical, then the illogical must become the logical " Spock
" If you don't know anything about the item you are buying then buy the second cheapest brand ".
" Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
" You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it. " Ho Chi Minh quotes from Vietnam conflict
" The way you can tell a psychologist from a group of men in a room is to watch what they do when a beautiful woman enters . The men will all turn to look at the woman, while the psychologist turns to look at the men. "
" The less one understands something, the greater one's faith in its capabilities "
" The most important customer is the unsatisfied one. "
" Those who do not find time for exercise will have to make time for illness" -Earl of Derby
" If you think education is expensive, try ignorance . "
" I can live with doubt and uncertainty. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong." Richard Feynman
" You know, science or knowledge is just a method. The thing is how to use that. Science itself is wonderful. Sometimes we use that knowledge for destruction. It.s not science's mistake, it's our mistake. Similarly, some people manipulate religion in the wrong way. It's not the fault of religion, it is the fault of people and politics. People talk about dirty science. There is also dirty religion and dirty politics. " Dalai Lama commenting on suicide bombings
" The people who talk don't know and the people who know don't tell" - Lao Tzu
" The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. " - Voltaire
" If we are not failing most of the times we are not taking enough risk " The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
" The problem with the rat race is even if you win, you're still a rat " Lily Tomlin
" Two hands working accomplish more than a thousand clasped in prayer "
" Less is more "
" We live in a world were each move is dictated by the previous one " Tom Stoppard
" Children uncoached in prejudice and class consciousness enjoy people for what they are. As they mature, our society soons set them right as to their place in it. More often than not they accept this place without question and thereby shut themselves off from warm human contact with many of their fellows. " - Amy Vanderbilt
" Has God created Man or Man created God? And if Man created God, does that mean he exists? "
" A little philosophy inclienth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion " Francis Bacon
" When the person you are arguing with resorts to Ad hominem, you can rest assured you have won the argument. "
" When you do not understand something, it is human nature to criticize it".
" When in Rome do as the Romans do "
" Your priorites in life should be Health, Family, Friends and Money last; sadly most people have this reversed . "
" Pick any book...religious, philosophy, history...any one at all, and it's all in there - greed, power, vanity, elitism, envy, class/race/cultural/gender division...there is nothing new under the sun today that wasn't there before - to assume that this generation is somehow different than any other is to be both ignorant (as in lacking knowledge) and arrogant IMO - we're no different and we're not special. "
" The Pleasure lies Not in the Having but in the Wanting" - Anthony Hopkins in the movie, "Shadowlands" ( 1993 )
" We read to know we are not alone" - Anthony Hopkins as CS Lewis
" Life is a zero-sum game "
" The enemy of my enemy is my friend " - An Arab saying
" If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job. " Woody Allen
" Different strokes for different folks"
" Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. " Albert Einstein
" To each their own"
" We change yet we remain the same"
" I AM THAT I AM" , God ( Exodus 3:14)
" Think of your investment plan as a pyramid, you will want the bottom to be solid, with investments like CDs and/or government bonds, then you diversify into mutual funds, and last stocks. Don't put the cart before the horse." www.FinancialEssentials.net
A lot of folks used to ask Sam Walton: "Could a Wal-Mart-type story still occur in this day and age? My answer is of course it could happen again. Somewhere out there right now there's someone - probably hundreds of thousands of someones - with good enough ideas to go it all the way. It will be done again, over and over, providing that someone wants it badly enough to do what it takes to get there. It's all a matter of attitude and the capacity to constantly study and question the management of the business."
" Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect " - Mark Twain
" Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own " - Chinese proverb
" As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do " - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
" The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment " - T. H. White
" What luck for the rulers that men do not think " - Adolf Hitler
" If you want to make enemies, try to change something " - Woodrow Wilson
" I Have nothing New to teach the World. Truth and Non-violence are as Old as the Hills" Gandhi
" Life is only as tough as the competition you have to face" Michael Jordan
" Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first " Mark Twain
" Curiousity + Time = Wisdom "
" Ignorance + Time = Stupidity "
" Stress + Time = Rage "
" Truth is ridding Oneself of Lies" Descartes
" We say Obviously, when Nothing in this World is Obvious"
" Your Mind is like a Parachute, It only Functions when Open" A Bumper Sticker
" There is Nothing Inside me Except my Life" From a film by Werner Herzog
" We Become Critics when We Fail at our Own Art" ??
" You can take people out of the gutter but you can't take the gutter out of the people".
" Although some excellent blogs do exist, most are written by monkeys banging on keyboards, disturbed or narcissistic individuals, failed novelists, pseudo-intellectual pinheads, and other morons who have no business stepping up to a public soapbox. So why be part of that?" - http://miserlybastard.blogspot.com
" They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone. So why do I continue to subject myself to this sort of thing? The answer is simple: Disrupting my comfort zone, bombarding myself with challenging people and situations -- this is the best way I know to keep growing. And to paraphrase a biologist I once met, if you're not growing, you're dying. The discomfort, the uncertainty, the physical and mental challenge that I get from this , all the things that too many of us spend our time and energy trying to avoid, they are precisely the things that keep me in the game. " Disrupting My Comfort Zone - As heard on NPR's All Things Considered, June 26, 2006.
" Education is something we all pay for, but care not to get our money's worth." Anonymous
" Education is that that remains after we forget everything"
" Life is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans "
" Reality is 20% of Expectation " Faraz Hussain
" Endure what you cannot cure!! " Charlotte Bronte
" ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and ME"
" Without challenge there is no achievment "
" How do I know what I think till I see what I have written? "
" Truth is stranger than fiction "
" If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for? "
" Your future depends on your dreams , so go to sleep "
" Hard work never killed anybody but why take the risk "