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Farhan Imaan: True lies
“If the Truth hurts, Lies aren’t the solution either.” —Farhan Imaan.
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Josh Billings: Knowledge
“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. ” —Josh Billings.
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Keith Urban: Groove
“Once we get into the groove, we’re kind of like long-distance runners – that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running – and I don’t stop! ” —Keith Urban
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Benjamin Franklin : Borrowed
“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. ” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Richard P Feynman: First principle
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. ” —Richard P. Feynman Related articles ‘The Character of Physical Law’: Richard Feynman’s Legendary Lecture Series at Cornell, 1964 (openculture.com) Richard Feynman said… (quotarium.wordpress.com)
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Robert Hall: Conscience and Prudence
“In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ” Robert Hall http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/185148571
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Jef Raskin: Users
However, I’ve always been more concerned with users. Programmers do their work but once, while users are saddled with it ever thereafter. – Jef Raskin Related articles How Steve Jobs changed computing (telegraph.co.uk)
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J Paul Getty: Hundred men seeking security
“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. ” —J. Paul Getty.
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Tina Fey: Confidence
“Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.” —Tina Fey.
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Scott Douglas: Finding time
“We find time for the things that are important to us. Period.” —Scott Douglas, Scott’s Original Miscellany, Running Times – March 2011. Embed from Getty Images
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Rocco Buttiglione: Sin
“Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin. ” —Rocco Buttiglione
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Raymond Chandler: Learning about writing
“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. ” —Raymond Chandler. Embed from Getty Images
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George Orwell: Rough men
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ” —George Orwell
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Linus Fernandes: Half-truths
“Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.” —Linus Fernandes.
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George Bernard Shaw: Great truths
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950).
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Thomas Aquinas: Love and hatred
“Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love. ” —Thomas Aquinas. Embed from Getty Images
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Denis Diderot: Light at night
“Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ The stranger is a theologian.” —Denis Diderot, philosopher (1713-1784).
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Aristotle: Moral excellence
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. —Aristotle.
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Thomas R Dewar: Pedestrians
“There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead. ” —Thomas R. Dewar.
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Christine Luff: Imagine yourself as an Olympic athlete
“When you hit a rough patch, try to imagine yourself as an Olympic athlete who’s headed towards the finish line. Envision your running form as smooth, graceful, and relaxed. Think of a runner who you really admire and imagine yourself running just like him.” —Christine Luff, Mental Tips for Long Runs, About.com Guide.
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Lewis Munford: Traditionalists
“Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ” —Lewis Mumford
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Bishop Robert South: Truth’s credibility
“Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. ” —Bishop Robert South.
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Voltaire: Truths
“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. ” —Voltaire.
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Peter Lynch: Human nature
“It’s human nature to keep doing something as long as it’s pleasurable and you can succeed at it – which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.” —Peter Lynch.
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Unknown: What we need to learn
“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.” -Unknown
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Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year
A very Merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let’s hope it’s a good one Without any fear. War is over, If you want it — War is over now. ~ John Lennon & Yoko Ono ~
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Unknown: Friends
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
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Charles Dickens: Laughter and good humor, to all
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor. —Charles Dickens, in “A Christmas Carol”
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Byron Pulsifer: Specialness
Someone is special only if you tell them. —Byron Pulsifer
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Joseph McCabe: Law of nature
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a “bundle of facts.” Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the “law” because they act in that way. ~ Joseph McCabe.
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Lao Tzu: Path with a heart
“There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.” ––Lao Tzu.
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Emil Zatopek: Experience, a marathon
“If you want to win a race try the 100 meter. If you want to win an experience try the marathon. ” —Emil Zatopek. Embed from Getty Images
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Benjamin Franklin: Sloth versus industry
“Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Nelson Mandela: Liberation from fear
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/108432562 As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. < p align=”justify”>—Nelson Mandela
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Blaise Pascal: Contradiction
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ” —Blaise Pascal
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Tony Robbins: Results
“There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. ” —Tony Robbins
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Christopher Hitchens: Beware the irrational
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and…
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Albert Einstein: Stupidity and genius
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ” —Albert Einstein.
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Ovid: Cause and effect
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all. —Ovid
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Helen Rowland: Marriages and divorces
“France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are “made in America.” ” —Helen Rowland
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Plato: Knowledge acquisition
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” —Plato.
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Samuel Johnson: Change
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. —Samuel Johnson. Embed from Getty Images
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Owen D. Young: Creating and proving
“It takes vision and courage to create – it takes faith and courage to prove. ” —Owen D. Young. Embed from Getty Images
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Startling mind
“A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/167160315
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William Scolavino: Height of accomplishments
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. —William Scolavino.
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Confucius: Character
“Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.” —Confucius. Embed from Getty Images
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Leo Rosten: Courage
“Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. ” —Leo Rosten.
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Lance Armstrong: Pain
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. ” —Lance Armstrong.
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May Sarton: Articulation
“The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become. ” —May Sarton.
