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Christopher Walken: Improvisation
“No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you’re doing. ” Christopher Walken
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Sandra Casey Cason: Injustice
“I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, ‘Wait.’ Perhaps you can. I can’t. And having decided that I cannot urge caution I must stand with him. ” ~Sandra Casey Cason
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Confucius: Obviously
“When it’s obvious the goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action. ~Confucius
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Albert Einstein: Ethical behaviour
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” —Albert Einstein
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Jonathan Edwards: New Year's Resolution
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. ~Jonathan Edwards
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Carl Sandburg: Time
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, poet (1878-1967)
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Yevgeny Zamyatin: Raspberry universe
“In the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another faraway universe people would be killing each other?” ~Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Jewish Proverb: Money in your pocket
“With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too.” Jewish Proverb
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Robert Frost: Injustice and mercy
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy. —Robert Frost
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Louise J. Kaplan: Emotional adolescence
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future. ~Louise J. Kaplan
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Tim Wise: Post-racial
Being asked to describe what ‘post-racial’ means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true. ~Tim Wise
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Charley Reese: Of malice and envy
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ~Charley Reese
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Taylor Caldwell: Christmas message
“This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone” – Taylor Caldwell, novelist
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Albert Einstein: Longer
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Yearn
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Dan Millman: Paradox, Humor and Change
“Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. – Paradox: Life is a mystery; don’t waste your time trying to figure it out. – Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure – Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.” ― Dan Millman, Way of the…
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Will Durrant: Nothing
“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” —Will Durant, American writer, historian and philosopher.
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Paulo Coelho: Value and worth
“Your value does not decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” ~Paulo Coelho
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Pontius Pilate: Do you not hear?
“Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee? ” —Pontius Pilate
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Jewish Proverb: Mend yourself
“First mend yourself, and then mend others.” Jewish Proverb
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Michel Foucault: What they do
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” ― Michel Foucault
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Hillary Clinton: Being real
I like live audiences, with real people – virtual reality is no substitute. ~Hillary Clinton
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Kurt Vonnnegut: Art and pretense
“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.” ~Kurt Vonnegut
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Interests
“One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.” — Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. first lady
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Sebastian Faulks: Priority
“You put your time where your priority is.” ~Sebastian Faulks, British writer and journalist.
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John F. Kennedy: Hellish quote
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” — John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president
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Lou Holtz: The way you carry it
It’s not the load that breaks you, it’s the way you carry it. ~Lou Holtz
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Henry Ford: Together
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” ~Henry Ford
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Ann Landers: Signs of strength
“Some people believe that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go — and then do it.” — Ann Landers, Advice columnist
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John F Kennedy: Myth
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” ~John F Kennedy
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Arundhati Roy: Never, never to forget
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never…
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Douglas Adams: His wife's idiot
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. ~Douglas Adams, English writer.
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Sam Walton: Only one boss
“There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” — Sam Walton, American businessman.
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Jim Morrison: Real love
“That’s what real love amounts to—letting a person be what he really is.” ~Jim Morrison
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Pope John Paul II: Stupidity
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it. ~Pope John Paul II
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Chinese proverb: Play the game!
“If you must play, decide upon three things at the start:the rules of the game, the stakes and the quitting time.“ ~Chinese proverb.
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Bill Gates: On MOOCs
Bill Gates on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): “The ideal would be to separate out the idea of proving your knowledge from the way you acquired that knowledge.”
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Anne Bronte: Walk firmly over stones
“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. ” ––Anne Bronte.
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Pope John Paul II: Family
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. ~Pope John Paul II
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William Penn: Right and wrong
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” —William Penn
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Kristin Armstrong: Running
“I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace. With that strategy in place I can push myself for pleasure, not punishment. Maybe you can only really go when you let go.” —Kristin Armstrong, Horizon, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com.
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Walter Hilton: Love of God
I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy. ~ Walter Hilton
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Norman Mailer: Disparity
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks…
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Ovid: Love
“If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love. ” Ovid
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Ben Dattner: Center of the web
“Twenty-first century leaders might benefit from thinking of themselves as being in the center of a web rather than on top of a pyramid.” —Ben Dattner, a New York University adjunct professor, as quoted in SmartBlog on Leadership.
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Jean Baudrillard: Television's perpetual day
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. –Jean Baudrillard, sociologist and philosopher (1929-2007)
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Pope John Paul II: Today, not tomorrow
The future starts today, not tomorrow. Pope John Paul II
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Maurice Strong: It adds up
“So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up. ” —Maurice Strong
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Neil Armstrong: Rocks remember
“Geologists have a saying – rocks remember. ” Neil Armstrong
