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Albert Einstein: Fish climbing trees
“Everyone is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” —Albert Einstein.
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Kevin Nelson: Every day
“Every day is a good day when you run.” ~Kevin Nelson, author and runner.
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Oscar Wilde: Saints and sinners
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” —Oscar Wilde.
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William Arthur Ward: Encouragement
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.” —William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994).
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Robert H Schuller: Winning
“Winning starts with beginning. ” Robert H. Schuller
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Margaret J. Wheatley: Magnetic
“Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us. ” —Margaret J. Wheatley.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Belief and unbelief
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Albert Einstein: Simplest way
“God always takes the simplest way.” —Albert Einstein. Related articles Albert Einstein famously said that “politics is more difficult than physics.” …Union of Concerned Scientists (ynative77.wordpress.com) Albert Einstein’s 10 Biggest Scientific Mistakes [Daily 10] (io9.com) Einstein (therightglass.wordpress.com) Einstein And The Mind of God (panokroko.wordpress.com) Einstein on radio (johndcook.com)
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Reasoning it out…
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” -Marcel Pagnol
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: How and why
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some,…
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Symptom rather than cause
Too often, look and feel, color scheme, layout, and identity are presented as solutions to problems discussed in these conversations long before regard is given to other less-aesthetic issues that may very well be the root of the problem. The old warning against treating symptom rather than cause comes to mind. – Cameron Moll
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The Wolf and the Lamb
A WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.” “Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice,…
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Bill Rodgers: Running
“Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It’s the easiest sport.” ~Bill Rodgers.
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Race horses and women
“Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ” —Lord Kelvin
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Saint Augustine: Wiser than Cicero and Plato
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.” ” —Saint Augustine.
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Susan Sontag : Thoughts and feelings
“One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feelings… which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment. We have more or less the same bodies, but very different kinds of thoughts. I believe that we think much more with…
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Henry Thoreau: Speak with kindness
“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.” —Henry Thoreau.
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George Bernard Shaw: Mistakes
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ” —George Bernard Shaw.
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I'm the one
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” -Jimi Hendrix
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Oscar Wilde: Reproduce that experience
“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.” —Oscar Wilde.
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Obedience
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. ” —Thomas Carlyle Related articles How to be obedient… (jesusfreaknow.com) Obedience is the Price (missiontough.com) poverty, chastity, and obedience (makeafriar.com) Obedience cannot be translate as tameness (profish3.wordpress.com) Obedience cannot be translate as tameness (profish3.wordpress.com) When…
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Compromise
“Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong. ” —Lord Edward Cecil Related articles Of compromise and friendship (unordinaire.wordpress.com) Selfless Compromises For The Team (meetjohnsong.com) Offer in Compromise (OIC) – Not Always the First Option (oweirsneedtaxdebthelp.wordpress.com)
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St. Paul: Love
“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” —Bible,…
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Concentration
“Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration. ” —Andrew Carnegie
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Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux: Kindness
“In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.” —Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, dramatist and novelist (1688-1763).
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Josh Billings: Ambition
“Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.” —Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885).
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Being funny
“If you can be funny, it means you’re intelligent. Your brain is working fast. ” —Amber Valletta
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Kristin Armstrong: Dreams and goals
“If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.” —Kristin Armstrong, Full Cup, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com.
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On Writing
“I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I’m a chameleon like that. ” Amber Tamblyn
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Tom Brokaw: Ticket
“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. ” —Tom Brokaw.
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Bruce Lee: Influential teacher
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.” —Bruce Lee. Related articles I Am Bruce Lee review (bizzam.wordpress.com) Currently Reading: Bruce Lee – The Art of Expressing the Human Body (brokebutrichatart.com) I AM BRUCE LEE Makes TV Debut on Spike TV (comicbooked.com) Who Is the Teacher and Who Is the Student? (theconfluencecountdown.com) Bruce…
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Oscar Wilde: Masking the truth
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” —Oscar Wilde.
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Michelle Obama: America
“America is just downright mean. ” —Michelle Obama. Related articles Obama Says Court Overturning Health-Care Law Would Be ‘Activism’ – San Francisco Chronicle (sfgate.com) Michelle Obama On Why African-Americans Have To Work Harder To Be Healthy [EXCLUSIVE] (therussparrmorningshow.com) First lady Michelle Obama covers the May issue of Ebony magazine (thegrio.com) First Lady Michelle Obama writes…
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Tyron Edwards: Happiness
“Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.” —Tyron Edwards Related articles…
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Chinese proverb: Injuries and kindnesses
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” —Chinese Proverb.
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Leadership Quotes
“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.” —Leadership Guru Warren Bennis. “In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved.” —Duke Basketball Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski. “If I can’t…
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Sam Keen: Questions
“What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask. ” —Sam Keen.
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Time and people
“People don’t slip. Time catches up with them. ” Nat King Cole
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Alphonse Karr: Uncertainty
“Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. ” —Alphonse Karr. Related articles ANXIETY = UNCERTAINTY x POWERLESSNESS (damniwish.com) uncertainties (pkshouse.wordpress.com) Which Are Your Strategies For Dealing With Uncertainty In Business? [Lucas Wyrsch] (ecademy.com) Liquidity and the Game of Money – Uncertainty & Unease ? Understood. (tradehaven.me)…
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Fear
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. ” Dale Carnegie
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Ogden Nash: Dental torture
Some tortures are physical / And some are mental, / But the one that is both / Is dental. –Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) Embed from Getty Images
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: Pursuit
“Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Ogden Nash: Of llamas
“The one-l lama, He’s a priest. The two-l llama, He’s a beast. And I will bet A silk pajama There isn’t any Three-l lllama.” —Ogden Nash http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1649582
