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Giordano Bruno: When the end comes
“When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I … what you receive from others is a testimony to their…
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Khandi Alexander: Comedy
“I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing. ” —Khandi Alexander Related articles Khandi Alexander on the End of ‘Treme’ and Rebuilding LaDonna(netflowers.wordpress.com)
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Terry Pratchett: Doggy days again
“Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog. ” —Terry Pratchett.
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Leonard Bernstein: Not enough time
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ” —Leonard Bernstein Related articles About Leonard Bernstein(wqxr.org) Top Five Beethoven Quotes & Samples in Popular Music(wqxr.org)
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Soren Kierkegaard: Prayer
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ” —Soren Kierkegaard
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Herman Melville: Fail in originality
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ” —Herman Melville.
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Goldwin Smith: Personality and partiality
“Personality is lower than partiality. ” —Goldwin Smith
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Leo Rosten: Humor
“Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. ” —Leo Rosten.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Wrong-doer
“A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.” —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
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Jodie Foster: Cruelty
“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it’s not acceptable. ” –—Jodie Foster
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George Bernard Shaw: What God hath joined together…
“What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Christian Nestell Bovee: Saints
“Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ” —Christian Nestell Bovee.
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Jerome K. Jerome: Idling and working
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. –Jerome K. Jerome, humorist and…
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Confucius: Superior man
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.” —Confucius.
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Donald G. Smith: Be a pest
“If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it.” —Donald G. Smith
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George Orwell: Myths
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. —George Orwell
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Arabic proverb: Wise man and idiot
“The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears.” Arabic Proverb.
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Alexander Pope: Love and hate
“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. ” —Alexander Pope.
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Christian Bovee: Example
“Example has more followers than reason.” —Christian Bovee
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Voltaire: Who rules?
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” —Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778).
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Frank Chimero: Eat dirt
To make pearls, you’ve got to eat dirt. – Frank Chimero
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Josh Cox: Be positive
“Be positive, ignore the critic, follow your heart, invest in your passions, believe in your dreams & get busy making them reality.” —Josh Cox, U.S. 50-K record holder.
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Simon Campbell: Stick to your knitting
“Stick to your knitting (what you’re good at), don’t compromise, and don’t suffer fools.” —Simon Campbell.
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William Glasser: Misery, a choice
“It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice. ” William Glasser
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Asics: Running
Running releases more than just sweat. Asics ad
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Marissa Mayer: Google design
“Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our way of approaching it closed. It’s simple, it’s elegant, you can slip it in your pocket, but it’s got the great doodad when you need it. A lot of our competitors are like a Swiss Army knife open…
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David Grayson: Great burden
“The sense of wishing to be known only for what one really is is like putting on an old, easy, comfortable garment. You are no longer afraid of anybody or anything. You say to yourself, ‘Here I am — just so ugly, dull, poor, beautiful, rich, interesting, amusing, ridiculous — take me or leave me.’…
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Robert Stevenson: End of life
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”— Robert Lous Stevenson.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Mad destruction
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Sojourner Truth: Truth
Truth is powerful and it prevails. —Sojourner Truth
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wise thoughts
“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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New Balance: Happiness
Happiness is pushing your limits and watching them back down. New Balance ad
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Edward De Bono: Bar to new ideas
“The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. ” —Edward De Bono.
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Steven Brust: Literature
“All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what’s cool. ” —Steven Brust
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Gift of penetration
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.” —Niccolo Machiavelli
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Christopher Columbus: Where's the shore?
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Christopher Columbus Related articles Christopher Columbus – Fact or Fiction(parentingwithallthepieces.typepad.com) The travels of the dead Christopher Columbus(repeatingislands.com) The Story of Christopher Columbus(badlandsbadley.wordpress.com) Christopher Columbus Had a Secret(maxiscomments.com) Confronting Christopher Columbus(blogher.com) Christopher Columbus: The Man, The Myth,…
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Richard Dawkins: Completely right or completely wrong
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. –Richard Dawkins, biologist and author (b. 1941) Related articles Richard Dawkins Explores the Meaning of Life as an Atheist(patheos.com) Richard Dawkins’s Blind…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Angry minute
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Christopher McDougall: Born to run
“The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other but to be with each other.” —Christopher McDougall, “Born to Run”.
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Thucydides: Men
“Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. ” —Thucydides.
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Percy B. Shelley: Love repulsed
“Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused – but it returneth.” —Percy B Shelley.
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Warren Farrell: Men and women
“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. ” —Warren Farrell.
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Truman Capote: Writing
“Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. ” —Truman Capote.
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Mary Kay Ash: Honesty
“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. ”—Mary Kay Ash.
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Whoopi Goldberg: Normality
“Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. ” —Whoopi Goldberg
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Amos Bronson Alcott: Observation and experience
“Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. ” —Amos Bronson Alcott.
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Theodore Hesburgh:Values
“It is easier to exemplify values than teach them. ” —Theodore Hesburgh
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Adam Smith:Virtue
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ” —Adam Smith Related articles Adam Smith: “wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue”(lifeondoverbeach.wordpress.com)
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Milan Kundera:Vertigo
“Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” — Milan…
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Anais Nin: Friendship
“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ” —Anais Nin.
