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Dante Alighieri: Notes
“He listens well who takes notes. ” —Dante Alighieri.
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Robert Morgan: Distance
“Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. ” —Robert Morgan Related articles Keep Your Dis___________tance (amberyesha.wordpress.com) The distance I see (nenskeifacestheworld.wordpress.com) Looking From a Distance (liveadayandalife.wordpress.com) Are you willing to heal your wounds? (namasteconsultinginc.com) Why maintaining a distance is necessary for doctors (kevinmd.com)
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Love
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Michael J Fox: None of my business
“What other people think about me is not my business. ” —Michael J Fox.
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Herman Hesse: Love of God and good
“Love of God is not always the same as love of good. ” —Herman Hesse.
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Benjamin Disraeli: Success
“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.”—Benjamin Disraeli.
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Eckhart Tolle: Being good
“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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John Leonard: Moral consciousness
“To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.” —John Leonard, critic (1939-2008).
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Kahlil Gibran: Knowledge
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. —Kahlil Gibran
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry: Perfection
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. – Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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Arthur Schopenhauer: Hatred and contempt
“Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3092493
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Jim Rohn: Marketplace
“Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace. ” —Jim Rohn.
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Sherlock Holmes: By design
No, Watson, this was not done by accident, but by design. – Sherlock Holmes
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Adlai Stevenson: Freedom
“Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. ”—Adlai Stevenson.
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Albert Einstein: Simple and simpler
“Everything should be as simple as possible — but not simpler.” —Albert Einstein. Related articles Albert Einstein Quotes (timehuman.blogspot.com) Albert Einstein’s 10 Biggest Scientific Mistakes [Daily 10] (io9.com) simplicity of form (ifmyeyeswerecameras.wordpress.com) The Day Albert Einstein Died Photos by Ralph Morse (vintage-everyday.blogspot.com) Albert Einstein (Some interesting and revealing incidents) (2motivate.wordpress.com) Extracurricular Activities Rock! Quote from…
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Michel de Montaigne: Milesian wench
I feel grateful to the Milesian wench who, seeing the philosopher Thales continually spending his time in contemplation of the heavenly vault and always keeping his eyes raised upward, put something in his way to make him stumble, to warn him that it would be time to amuse his thoughts with things in the cloud…
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Harvey Fierstein: Define yourself
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. ” —Harvey Fierstein
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G C Lichtenberg: Dangerous untruths
“The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.” —G C Lichtenberg.
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Lewis Carroll: Wings
“The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. Of why the ocean is burning hot, and whether pigs have wings.” —Lewis Carroll.
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David Ogilvy : Imitation
Imitation may be the “sincerest form of plagiarism,” but it is also the mark of an inferior person. – David Ogilvy Related articles David Ogilvy: I am a lousy copywriter (kutenda.com) A 1955 Letter from David Ogilvy (johndrake.typepad.com) Ogilvy’s Advertising Lessons (alignment.wordpress.com)
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Dennis & Wendy Mannering: Attitudes
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? —Dennis and Wendy Mannering
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James Rouse: Profit
“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable. ” —James Rouse
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Finding yourself
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” —Mohandas Gandhi.
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T S Eliot: Talking of Michelangelo
“In the room people come and go, talking of Michelangelo.” —T S Eliot.
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Gombrowicz: Condescend
Stop being afraid of your own pictures, stop worshiping art, treat it the Polish way, condescendingly, make it obedient, and then your originality will release itself in you, new roads will open in front of you and you will gain what is most valuable, most fertile: your own reality. – Gombrowicz
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Paul Kantner: Planning for the future
“You can’t plan for the future, because some guy’s going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything. ” —Paul Kantner
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Alexis Carrel: Intuition
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. —Alexis Carrel Related articles The power of silence (csmonitor.com) Day 15: The gift of intuition (incelebrationofyou.wordpress.com) Slow Down, You Think Too Fast (ritholtz.com)
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Saul Alinsky: Nice?
“Last guys don’t finish nice. ” —Saul Alinsky
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Carolyn Wood: Bad clients
Turning away bad clients can leave you feeling oddly guilty. They’re sort of like alcoholic or meth head cousins who force you, by their own bad behavior into denying them things you wouldn’t deny other people. You’re left feeling not quite yourself. – Carolyn Wood.
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Kristin Armstrong: Victories of all sizes
“Once our eyes are opened to victories of all sizes, we can see them more easily in ourselves and in everyone else. There is no better feeling than to acknowledge someone else’s milestones, especially the little ones that they haven’t thought to celebrate. Remind them.” —Kristin Armstrong, MILEstones, Mile Markers, Runner’s World.com.
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Martin Luther King Jr : Respect for the law
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” –Martin Luther King Jr.
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Joseph Joubert: Cutting and untying
Never cut what you can untie. –Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824). Related articles The Great Untying (womeninfluencingnow.wordpress.com) Should I untie my tongue? (ask.metafilter.com) Quotes About Kindness ~ by Gabby (autumnsunshineandgabrielleangel.wordpress.com)
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Napoleon Bonaparte : Courage and love
“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ” —Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Dalai Lama: Love and compassion
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” –Dalai Lama Related articles Dalai Lama (filipinofestival.wordpress.com) Dalai Lama: We Must Learn More About Each Other (skyscraperyoga.wordpress.com) Quotes About Compassion ~ by Gabby Angel (autumnsunshineandgabrielleangel.wordpress.com) “Instructions for Life by the Dalai Lama” Bandwagon Post (foodlovelifeexperiment.wordpress.com)
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Thomas Szasz: Define or be defined
“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. ” —Thomas Szasz. Embed from Getty Images
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Jonathan Swift: Against a child
“Don’t set your wit against a child. ” —Jonathan Swift. Embed from Getty Images
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Samuel Butler: Good company
“People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. ” —Samuel Butler.
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Josef Albert: Closed eyes
“I prefer to see with closed eyes. ” —Josef Albers
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Joseph Butler: Man's dual capacities
“Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others. ” —Joseph Butler.
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Robert Fripp: Music
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” —Robert Fripp. Embed from Getty Images
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Bertolt Brecht: Demand function
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. ~ Bertolt Brecht ~
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John Stuart Mill: Virtual incarceration
“Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. ” —John Stuart Mill.
