Quite a Quote!

James Jones: Modern warfare

“I don’t think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won’t even accept these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they don’t even apply to what, in actual fact, modern warfare has become.” —James Jones.
Zig Ziglar: Lack of direction

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” —Zig Ziglar.
Anthony de Mello: Properly wicked

“To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.” —Anthony de Mello.
Simon Sinek: Disappoint with truth

“It’s better to disappoint with the truth than please with a lie.” —Simon Sinek.
Ruth Handler: Dreams of their own futures

“They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.” —Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll.
David Foster Wallace: Voting

“There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard’s vote.” —David Foster Wallace.
Conor Cruise O’Brien: Christian unity

“Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.” —Conor Cruise O’Brien.
Simon Sinek: No need for each other?

“If we were good at everything, we’d have no need for each other.” —Simon Sinek.
Sean Connery: Privilege

“I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.” —Sean Connery.
Carl Sagan: Laughed at

“… the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” — Carl Sagan.
Dan Rather: Sharp stick called truth

“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.” —Dan Rather.
Bill Mauldin: Status quo

“Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.” —Bill Mauldin.
Jonas Salk: Patent the sun

‘Journalist Ed Murrow: “Who owns the patent on this vaccine?” Jonas Salk: “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”‘ —Jonas Salk.
Heinrich Heine: But is that an answer?

“So we keep asking, over and over,Until a handful of earthStops out mouths ―But is that an answer?”—Heinrich Heine.
Jonas Salk: Intuition

“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.” —Jonas Salk.
Emily Post: Manners

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.” —Emily Post.
Epicetus: Only the educated can be free

“We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say the only the educated can be free.” —Epictetus.
John Cleese: Creative workers

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” —John Cleese.
Noel Coward: Motivation

“Your Motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get with it!’—Noel Coward.
Hilary Clinton: Dignity

“Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.” —Hilary Clinton.
Bruce Feiler: Happy families

“When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.” —Bruce Feiler.
Samuel Butler: Credulous mind

“A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such.” — Samuel Butler.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Memories

“True memories seemed like phantoms, while false memories were so convincing they replaced reality.” —Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Ivan Bunin: Words and deeds

“Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.” —Ivan Bunin.
Timothy Leary: Think for yourself

“Think for yourself and question authority.” —Timothy Leary.
Charles Darwin: Ignorance

“[I]gnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” ― Charles Darwin.
Sarah Bernhardt: Fine bodily proportions

“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.” —Sarah Bernhardt.
Martin Gardner: History of boneheads

“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all.” —Martin Gardner.
Thomas Henry Huxley: Corroborative evidence

“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvelous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.” — Thomas Henry Huxley.
Leonardo da Vinci: Practice and sound theory

“Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going…. Practice must always be founded on sound theory.” —Leonardo da Vinci.
Russell Lincoln Ackoff: Common sense

“Common sense has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively, it seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful projects is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are successful prospectively.Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after the work;…
Virgil: Able

“They are able because they think they are able.” —Virgil.
Lenny Bruce: Hiroshima was dirty

“You can’t do anything with anybody’s body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person — you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.” —Lenny Bruce.
Charles Reznikoff: Fingers of thoughts

“The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.” —Charles Reznikoff.
Tommy Lee Jones: Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

“A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.” —Tommy Lee Jones.
Dwight D Eisenhower: Don’t join book burners

“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…” —Dwight D Eisenhower.
Richard Feynman: Be a free thinker

“Be a free thinker.We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true.Don’t accept everything you hear as truth.Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.” ― Richard Feynman.
Summer Sanders: Big picture

“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. Its not about winning and losing, its about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. Its about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard…
Abraham Lincoln: With malice toward none

“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to…
Josh Hutcherson: Love as motivator

“Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who’s not in love. Once you’re in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.” —Josh…
Robert John Halligan: Engineering system

“Regard the engineering system as having the same criticality as that of the system being engineered.”—Robert John Halligan.
Fridtjof Nansen: Forward

“I demolish my bridges behind me – then there is no choice but forward.” —Fridtjof Nansen.
Calvin Coolidge: Persistence

‘Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.The slogan “Press On!” has solved and always will solve the problems of…
Ivo Andric: Bridges

“From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living, nothing in my eyes is better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are…
Frank Herbert: Fear

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will…
Dwight D Eisenhower: Followers

“In order to be a leader, a man (or woman) must have followers. And to have followers a man (or woman) must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality of a leader is unquestionably integrity. without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in…
Garrett Camp: Wiki

“A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki – its more valuable than e-mail for running a company – and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.” —Garrett Camp.
Simon Sinek: Only two ways

“There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.” —Simon Sinek.
Sting: Jealous

“I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should.” —Sting.
Simon Sinek: Stress versus passion

“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.” —Simon Sinek.