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Your Personal, Cycle of Success
(Activity-1) LEARN what you have to learn, so you can...
(Activity-2) EARN what you have to earn, so you can...
(Activity-3) SAVE what you have to save, so you can...
(Activity-4) INVEST what you have to invest, so you can...
(Activity-5) RETIRE financially comfortable, at the earliest possible age, so you can...
(Activity-6) ENJOY living the rest of your life... caring and sharing... with your knowledge, skills, and/or assets.
No one knows what you are capable of achieving...
--- WHAT DO YOU WANT? - In life, you can have anything/everything you desire; be anything you want to be-or-become; do anything you want to do; go anywhere you want to go; learn more about, anything you want to learn more about. You can have it all! But first, you have to know what it is you desire.
--- REASONS WHY -
--- BIBLICAL PROMISES - (1) "Seek and Ye shall find." (2) "Ask and it shall be given," (3) "Knock and the door shall be opened to you." God's promise to you is this, what ever you need, seek, and believe... you will find it, and you shall have it.
--- COMMITMENT- "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing." (Abraham Lincoln)
--- DECISIONS - Every decision you make, on this day of your life, is like coming to an intersection on the highway. You have to choose today which road you want to take from here. Each possibility will take you to a different future. Some future destinations you're going to like; some you're not going to like. It's important to understand that your future circumstances are the effect that was caused by today's decision. Choose wisely. The simplest of decisions can have the greatest impact on how you live and like your future.
--- DESIRE - The starting point of all achievement.
--- DESIRES & FOCUS - There may be many things you desire but, there has to be one desire that is more important to you than any other. The more you concentrate your energies on a single desire, the more likely you will succeed. Focused energy is going to play a critical role in all of your successes. It's like "Big Game Hunting." There are laws that require big game hunters to hunt with high powered rifles instead of shotguns. Shotguns diffuse the bullet's energy over a wide area. It's possible to hit the animal but, only wound him. Rifles focus all of the bullet's energy into a single projectile which hits the target with lethal force. The difference in wounding and killing is focus-power. Getting what you desire works the same way.
--- DISCIPLINE - "We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." Jim Rohn
--- DESIRE & YOUR WRITTEN GOAL - Half the wealth in America is controlled by 3% of the population. The top 3% of successful people write down their goals. Hint-hint. Once you know what you want, write it down on a 3X5 card so you can carry it around with you and read it several times everyday.
--- DISCIPLINE - “Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.” (Lou Holtz)
--- DETERMINATION - “I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad your situation is, you can make it.” (Gale Sayers)
--- FAILURE - "Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."
--- LYING - "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it easier to do it a second time." (Thomas Jefferson)
--- LEARNING - "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."(Albert Einstein)
--- LIVING BY EXAMPLE - "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." (Albert Schweitzer)
--- MOTIVATION - "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." JimRohn
--- PHILOSOPHY - "If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... (Albert Einstein)
---THINKING - "Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think." (Adolf Eichmann)
--- TIME (TODAY IS ALL THERE IS) - It's the only day of your life you have control over. You can't re-live any day from your past. You can't pre-live any day in your future. Today is the only day where you get to choose the ideas you think about, the decisions you choose to make, and the activities you undertake.
--- STRENGTH - “Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.” (Knute Rockne)
--- SUCCESS - “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.” (John Madden)
--- SUCCESS - "Nothing will work unless you do." (John Wooten Basketball Coach)
--- SUCCESS ATTITUDE - I cannot fail. I can only learn and grow. (Larry Wilson)
--- SUCCESS ATTITUDE - Success and fulfillment is the natural order of existence. (Steve Seibold)
--- SUCCESS ATTITUDE - The world is conspiring to help me get everything I want. (Steve Seibold)
--- WILLINGNESS - “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” (Vince Lombardi)
--- WINNING - “Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.” (Paul "Bear" Bryant)
--- WINNING - "Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.” (Paul "Bear" Bryant)
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
"I'd rather have a lot of talent and little experience than a lot of experience and little talent."
"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of being."
"Ability is a poor man's wealth."
"The athlete who says that something cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."
"You can't live a perfect day with doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
ATTITUDE - Attitude is everything!
ATTITUDE - Attitudes are contagious!
ATTITUDE - Only you... get to choose your attitudes.
DISCIPLINE - Discipline yourself today, you'll enjoy your life more tomorrow.
ENERGY - All ideas automatically attract energy for growth. Energy doesn't know the difference between 'your sweetest dream'
from 'your worst nightmare'. If it's an idea, a thought, energy will automatically provide the growth-power so the idea will become a
bigger idea. It's how nature works. Fill your mind with thoughts of what you want, what you have to do to get them, and then, let
nature take over to help you... make it happen. This works equally as well for the things you don't want in your life.
from 'your worst nightmare'. If it's an idea, a thought, energy will automatically provide the growth-power so the idea will become a
bigger idea. It's how nature works. Fill your mind with thoughts of what you want, what you have to do to get them, and then, let
nature take over to help you... make it happen. This works equally as well for the things you don't want in your life.
GOALS - Take control of your life by creating the future you want.. on purpose. (Greg Habstritt)
GOALS - The key to your better future.. is you! (Jim Rohn)
GOALS - William Joseph, one of America's earliest psychologists gave us some magnificent advice on goals when he said, "If you
are going to change your life there are only 3 points to remember: 1. Do it immediately; 2. Do it flamboyantly; 3. No Exceptions."
are going to change your life there are only 3 points to remember: 1. Do it immediately; 2. Do it flamboyantly; 3. No Exceptions."
GRATITUDE - Maintain an 'attitude of gratitude' for everything you already have.
HAPPINESS - If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. (Booker T Washington)
HAPPINESS - To be happier, surround yourself with people who actually do the things that causes them to be happier.
HEALTH - To be healthier, surround yourself with people who actually do the things that causes them to be healthy.
HEALTH - Without good health, nothing else matters.
HEALTH - Your health is your wealth.
LOVE - To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. (David Viscott)
RESPONSIBILITY - Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Henry Ward Beecher
SMART - To be smarter, surround yourself with people who actually do the things that causes them to be smarter.
SUCCESSFUL - To be successful, surround yourself with people who actually do the things that causes them to be successful.
WEALTH - To be wealthier, surround yourself with people who actually do the things that causes them to be wealthy.
WISDOM - To be wiser, surround yourself with people who actually do the things that causes them to be wiser.
() Learn from the giants. (Dave Kekich)
() A little caution avoids great regrets. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Keep fully insured physically and materially and keep hedged emotionally. Insurance is not for sale when you need it. (Dave Kekich)
() Learn the other side's needs, offer as little information as possible, never underestimate your opposition, and never show weakness when negotiating. (Dave Kekich)
() Never enter into nor invest in a business without a solid, well-researched and well thought-out written plan. Execute the plan with passion and precision. Plan and manage your life the same way. (Dave Kekich)
() Success comes quickly to those whom develop great powers of intense sustained concentration. The first rule is to get involved by asking focused questions. (Dave Kekich)
() Protect your downside. The upside will take care of itself. Cut your losses short - and let your profits run. This takes tremendous discipline. (Dave Kekich)
() The primary purpose of business is to create and keep customers. Marketing and innovation produce results. All other business functions are costs. Prospecting and increasing the average value and frequency of sales are the bedrock of marketing and business. (Dave Kekich)
() If it's not proprietary, it won't work. Pay only on performance. Proprietary interest is one of the most powerful forces ever known. Whatever you reinforce or reward, you get more of. (Dave Kekich)
() Competence starts with guaranteeing your work. (Dave Kekich)
() Life operates in reverse action to entropy. Therefore the universe is hostile to life. Progress is a continued effort to swim against the stream. (Dave Kekich)
() Find out what works, and then do more of it. Focus first on doing the right things, and then on doing things right by mastering details. A few basic moves produce most results and income.
() Use leverage with ideas (the ability to generalize is the key to intellectual leverage), work, money, time and people. To maximize profits, replicate yourself. Earning potentials become geometric rather than linear. (Dave Kekich)
() Rationalizations are generally convenient evasions of reality and are used as excuses for dishonest behavior, mistakes and/or laziness. (Dave Kekich)
21. Always have lofty explicit goals and visualize them intensely. Assume the attitude that if you don't reach your goals, you will literally die! This type of gun-to-your-head forced focus... survival pressure mindset, no matter how briefly used, stimulates your mind, forces you to use your time effectively... and illuminates new ways of getting things done.
22. The value of any service you have to offer diminishes rapidly once it's provided. Protect your compensation before performing.
23. Incalculable effort and hardship over countless generations evolved into the life, values and happiness we take for granted today. Every day should be a celebration of existence. You are a masterpiece of life and should feel and appreciate this all the way down to your bones. Aspire to create, achieve and build onto the great value momentum taking place all around you.
24. Enthusiasm covers many deficiencies - and will make others want to associate with you.
25. Working for someone else gives you little chance to make a fortune. By owning your own business, you only have to be good to become wealthy.
26. Religiously nourish your body with proper nutrition, exercise, recreation, sleep and relaxation techniques.
27. The choice to exert integrated effort or to default to camouflaged laziness is the key choice that determines your character, competence and future. That critical choice must be made continually - throughout life. The most meaningful thing to live for is reaching your full potential.
28. Keep an active mind, and continue to grow intellectually. You either grow or regress. Nothing stands still.
29. Most accomplishment (and problem avoidance) is built on clear persuasive communication. That includes knowing each other's definitions, careful listening, thinking before talking, focused questioning and observing your feedback. Become a communications expert.
30. Power comes from stripping away appearances and seeing things as they really are. Socialism appeals to psychological and intellectual weaklings. Identify and replace all external authorities with internal strength and competence. Take full control of, and responsibility for, your conscious mind and every aspect of your life. Being incompetent or dependent in any part of your life or business opens you up to sloppiness, manipulation and irrationality.
31. If there is not a conscious struggle to be honest in difficult situations, you are probably being dishonest. Characters aren't really tested until things aren't going well or until the stakes are high.
32. Do not compromise if you are right. Hold your ground, show no fear, ask for what you want, and the opposition will usually agree.
33. If the situation is not right in the long term, walk away from it. Maintain a long term outlook in all endeavors. Live like you don't have much time left... but plan as if you'll live for centuries.
34. Invest only after strict and complete due diligence. Don't allow yourself to be rushed. Make
important decisions carefully, consider your gut feelings... then pull the trigger.
35. Stress kills. No matter how painful in the short-term, remove all chronically stressful situations, environments and people from your life.
36. Keep your overhead to a minimum. Rely more on brains, wit and talent... and less on money.
37. Business is the highest evolution of consciousness and morality. The essences of business are: honesty, effort, responsibility, integration, creativity, objectivity, long-range planning, intensity, effectiveness, discipline, thought and control. Business is life on all levels at all times.
38. That which is most satisfying is that which is earned. Anything received free of charge is seldom valued. You can't get something for (from) nothing. The price is too high.
39. By adhering to a strong honest philosophy, you will remain guiltless, blameless, independent and maintain control over your life. Without a sound philosophy, your life will eventually crumble.
40. No dream is too big. It takes almost the same amount of time and energy to manage tiny projects or businesses as it does to manage massive ones... and the massive ones carry with them - proportional rewards.
41. There is no such thing as "just a little theft" or "just a little dishonesty".
42. Lead by example.
43. Take full responsibility for your actions or lack of action. He who errs must pay. This is an easy concept to grasp from the recipient's end.
44. An hour of effective, precise, hard, disciplined - and integrated thinking can be worth a month of hard work. Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in business and in life. Empire builders spend hour-after-hour on mental work... while others party. If you're not consciously aware of putting forth the effort to exert self-guided integrated thinking... if you don't act beyond your feelings and instead take the path of least resistance, then you give in to laziness, make bad decisions and no longer control your life. The most powerful way to do this is to insulate yourself from all distractions. Then write a problem or goal on a sheet of paper and force yourself to come up with at least 20 ways to solve your problem or reach your goal. The last solutions are the toughest and are usually the most life changing. Make this exercise a life-long habit.
45. Out-think, out-innovate and out-hustle the competition, and vividly visualize yourself as winning before entering into every deal or competitive situation. Maintain a blood-smelling, fighter pilot life-or-death attitude when any deal gets near to a close.
46. First impressions are lasting impressions. Put your best foot forward. People treat you like you teach them to treat you. A success key is positioning yourself at the top of their agenda.
47. The right thing is usually not the easy thing to do. You may sacrifice popularity for rightness, but you'll lose self-esteem for wrongness. Don't be afraid to say "no".
48. If someone lies to you once, he'll lie to you a thousand times. Lying is for thieves and cowards.
49. Have strict and total respect for other people's property.
50. Producing results is more important than proving you're right. To get things done, try to understand others' frames of references, points of view, needs and wants. Then determine what is honest, fair, effective and rational... and act accordingly.
51. Long term success is built on credibility and on establishing enduring loving relationships with quality people based on mutually earned trust. Cut all ties with dishonest, negative or lazy people, and associate with people who share your values. You become whom you associate with.
52. Outside of yourself, you control nothing… but you can manage anything. Don't be preoccupied with things over which you have no control, and don't take things personally.
53. Spend more time working "on" your business than "in" your business.
54. Don't enter into a business relationship with anyone unknown to you without being furnished with references dating back at least 10 years. If he doesn't have good enduring relationships, stay away. Check all representations on which you will rely made by everyone.
55. Enjoy life. Treat it as an adventure. Care passionately about the outcome, but keep it in perspective. Things are seldom as bleak as they seem when they are going wrong - or as good as they seem when they are going well. Lighten up. You'll live longer.
56. Identify exactly what it is you want. This takes a lot of thought. Then don't let anything stand in your way of getting it.
57. You can get any job done through the sheer force of will when combined with uncompromising integrity and competence. Strong leadership is the key.
58. You are responsible for exactly who, what and where you are in life. That will be just as true this time next year. Situations aren't important. How you react to them is. You have to play it where it lies.
59. The foundation of achievement is intense desire. The world's highest achievers have the highest levels of dissatisfaction. Those with the lowest levels are the failures. The best way to build desire is to make resolute choices for the future.
60. Integrate every aspect of your life (body, mind, spirit, relationships, business) and each within itself. Integrating means understanding and digesting a process... and seeing relationships among seemingly unrelated phenomena. It's a sign of innovative genius.
61. Never be deceptive when trying to achieve a personal gain. Shortchanging others results in loss of self-esteem.
62. If your purpose of life is security, you will be a failure. Security is the lowest form of happiness.
63. Never enter into a contract unless all parties benefit. But no partnership is ever 50/50. There will always be inequities.
64. Review the basics of your profession at least once per year.
65. Bitterness, jealousy and anger empower your enemies and enslave you. Negative thinking results in the destruction of property. It is anti-property, therefore anti-capitalistic and anti-life. It also erodes your health. Forgive, learn your lessons, and get on with your life.
66. Most people spend 90% of their time on what they're not best at and what they don't like doing - and only 10% of their time on their best and most enjoyable ability. Geniuses delegate the 90%... and spend all their time on their "unique ability".
67. High self-esteem can only come from moral productivity and achievement.
68. There are an infinite number of new opportunities. Actively seek them out, and position yourself to recognize and take advantage of them.
69. The best way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas. But there is no such thing as a good idea unless it is developed and utilized. Ditto for prospects.
70. For maximum profits, identify and market universal needs, wants and trends. Creating desire, satisfying needs and wants and replacing problems with creative innovations are the essence of profit generation.
71. To maximize opportunities, seek and master the complicated. The major solutions you find will be surprisingly simple, and the competition is minimal.
72. Always have options. Options are a primary source of power. Power also comes from stripping away appearances and seeing things as they really are.
73. Nothing wins more often than superior preparation. Genius is usually preparation.
74. Patience is profitable. Achievement comes from the sum of consistent small efforts, repeated daily.
75. Persistence is a sure path to success with quality activities. Never, ever, ever give up.
76. "I will do this" is the only attitude that works. "I'll try" or "I think" doesn't work.
77. Always work on increasing the size of the pie, rather than just your portion.
78. Rewards are rare without risks, but take only carefully calculated risks. Make sure the odds are on your side.
79. The "how" you get it (with integrity) is more important than the "what".
80. Be explicit and semantically precise in all communications, agreements and dealings. Summarize and write down important discussions... and make sure all sides agree. Putting agreements in writing avoids misunderstandings. Memories are fallible, and death is inevitable (so far).
81. The best way to get started is to get started. Life rewards action... not reaction. Wait for nothing. Attack life. Don't plan to death or ask for permission... but act now... and apologize later.
82. Question everything. Don't believe it's true or right just because it's conventional. Strip all limits from your imagination on every deal and look for an unconventional creative opportunity in every mistake, crisis or problem. Be flexible, and be willing to turn on a dime when advantageous.
83. Have fun. The single key to a successful happy life is finding a vocation you enjoy - one that excites you the most.
84. Nobody gets old by surprise.
85. When it's a matter of producing or starving, people don't starve.
86. You get what you expect, not what you want. Fill your life with positive expectations. Demand the best. Attitude and desire contribute to 90% of your achievement. Anyone can learn the physical mechanics.
87. The surest way to accomplish your business goals is making service to others your primary goal. The key to success is adding value to others' lives.
88. The source of lasting happiness can never come from outside yourself through consuming values - but only from within yourself by creating values. Producing more than you consume is the only justification for existence.
89. Unattended problems will not go away, but will usually get worse. Anticipate and avoid problems - or meet them head on at the outset. Overcome fear by attacking it.
90. Find an excuse to laugh every chance you get, especially when you least feel like it.
91. When someone makes a big issue about his honesty or achievements, he is probably dishonest or a failure.
92. Put the magic power of compound interest to work with every available dollar.
93. The best investment you will ever make is your steady increase of knowledge. Invest in yourself. Thirty minutes of study per day eventually makes you an expert in any subject - but only if you apply that knowledge. Study alone is no substitute for experience. Education is always painfully slow.
94. For each important action you take, ask yourself if you would be embarrassed if it were published. It takes a lifetime of effort to build a good reputation but only a moment of stupidity to destroy it.
95. You are exactly what you believe and think about all day long. Constantly monitor your thoughts.
96. Skepticism is a key to rational thinking. Be especially skeptical of your own cherished beliefs. You might be wrong... and things change.
97. Anxiety is usually caused by lack of control, organization, preparation and action.
98. The first rule of sharpening your mind is to be an alert and sensitive observer. Assume nothing. If it can't be observed, it's not true. Never act on blind faith. Whenever something sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. Refuse to be swayed by emotion when it conflicts with reason. Observation is the genesis of all knowledge and progress... and is the first and last step of every thinking man's tool - The Scientific Method. All science and most progress is built on the Scientific Method (most non-scientists use it by accident). The steps are:
1) OBSERVATION. Gathering and rationally organizing facts. This is where most people fail.
2) INDUCTIVE REASONING. Forming a hypothesis - or a generalization of facts held to be true.
3) EXTRAPOLATION. Making a projection or prediction based on the hypothesis in areas you didn't yet observe.
4) OBSERVATION. A test for the hypothesis to see if it works.
99. Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you. It takes a wise man to learn from his own mistakes... and a genius to learn and profit from the mistakes and experiences of others.
100. The purpose of life is to delay, avoid and eventually reverse death.
() A little caution avoids great regrets. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Keep fully insured physically and materially and keep hedged emotionally. Insurance is not for sale when you need it. (Dave Kekich)
() Learn the other side's needs, offer as little information as possible, never underestimate your opposition, and never show weakness when negotiating. (Dave Kekich)
() Never enter into nor invest in a business without a solid, well-researched and well thought-out written plan. Execute the plan with passion and precision. Plan and manage your life the same way. (Dave Kekich)
() Success comes quickly to those whom develop great powers of intense sustained concentration. The first rule is to get involved by asking focused questions. (Dave Kekich)
() Protect your downside. The upside will take care of itself. Cut your losses short - and let your profits run. This takes tremendous discipline. (Dave Kekich)
() The primary purpose of business is to create and keep customers. Marketing and innovation produce results. All other business functions are costs. Prospecting and increasing the average value and frequency of sales are the bedrock of marketing and business. (Dave Kekich)
() If it's not proprietary, it won't work. Pay only on performance. Proprietary interest is one of the most powerful forces ever known. Whatever you reinforce or reward, you get more of. (Dave Kekich)
() Competence starts with guaranteeing your work. (Dave Kekich)
() Life operates in reverse action to entropy. Therefore the universe is hostile to life. Progress is a continued effort to swim against the stream. (Dave Kekich)
() Find out what works, and then do more of it. Focus first on doing the right things, and then on doing things right by mastering details. A few basic moves produce most results and income.
() Use leverage with ideas (the ability to generalize is the key to intellectual leverage), work, money, time and people. To maximize profits, replicate yourself. Earning potentials become geometric rather than linear. (Dave Kekich)
() Rationalizations are generally convenient evasions of reality and are used as excuses for dishonest behavior, mistakes and/or laziness. (Dave Kekich)
21. Always have lofty explicit goals and visualize them intensely. Assume the attitude that if you don't reach your goals, you will literally die! This type of gun-to-your-head forced focus... survival pressure mindset, no matter how briefly used, stimulates your mind, forces you to use your time effectively... and illuminates new ways of getting things done.
22. The value of any service you have to offer diminishes rapidly once it's provided. Protect your compensation before performing.
23. Incalculable effort and hardship over countless generations evolved into the life, values and happiness we take for granted today. Every day should be a celebration of existence. You are a masterpiece of life and should feel and appreciate this all the way down to your bones. Aspire to create, achieve and build onto the great value momentum taking place all around you.
24. Enthusiasm covers many deficiencies - and will make others want to associate with you.
25. Working for someone else gives you little chance to make a fortune. By owning your own business, you only have to be good to become wealthy.
26. Religiously nourish your body with proper nutrition, exercise, recreation, sleep and relaxation techniques.
27. The choice to exert integrated effort or to default to camouflaged laziness is the key choice that determines your character, competence and future. That critical choice must be made continually - throughout life. The most meaningful thing to live for is reaching your full potential.
28. Keep an active mind, and continue to grow intellectually. You either grow or regress. Nothing stands still.
29. Most accomplishment (and problem avoidance) is built on clear persuasive communication. That includes knowing each other's definitions, careful listening, thinking before talking, focused questioning and observing your feedback. Become a communications expert.
30. Power comes from stripping away appearances and seeing things as they really are. Socialism appeals to psychological and intellectual weaklings. Identify and replace all external authorities with internal strength and competence. Take full control of, and responsibility for, your conscious mind and every aspect of your life. Being incompetent or dependent in any part of your life or business opens you up to sloppiness, manipulation and irrationality.
31. If there is not a conscious struggle to be honest in difficult situations, you are probably being dishonest. Characters aren't really tested until things aren't going well or until the stakes are high.
32. Do not compromise if you are right. Hold your ground, show no fear, ask for what you want, and the opposition will usually agree.
33. If the situation is not right in the long term, walk away from it. Maintain a long term outlook in all endeavors. Live like you don't have much time left... but plan as if you'll live for centuries.
34. Invest only after strict and complete due diligence. Don't allow yourself to be rushed. Make
important decisions carefully, consider your gut feelings... then pull the trigger.
35. Stress kills. No matter how painful in the short-term, remove all chronically stressful situations, environments and people from your life.
36. Keep your overhead to a minimum. Rely more on brains, wit and talent... and less on money.
37. Business is the highest evolution of consciousness and morality. The essences of business are: honesty, effort, responsibility, integration, creativity, objectivity, long-range planning, intensity, effectiveness, discipline, thought and control. Business is life on all levels at all times.
38. That which is most satisfying is that which is earned. Anything received free of charge is seldom valued. You can't get something for (from) nothing. The price is too high.
39. By adhering to a strong honest philosophy, you will remain guiltless, blameless, independent and maintain control over your life. Without a sound philosophy, your life will eventually crumble.
40. No dream is too big. It takes almost the same amount of time and energy to manage tiny projects or businesses as it does to manage massive ones... and the massive ones carry with them - proportional rewards.
41. There is no such thing as "just a little theft" or "just a little dishonesty".
42. Lead by example.
43. Take full responsibility for your actions or lack of action. He who errs must pay. This is an easy concept to grasp from the recipient's end.
44. An hour of effective, precise, hard, disciplined - and integrated thinking can be worth a month of hard work. Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in business and in life. Empire builders spend hour-after-hour on mental work... while others party. If you're not consciously aware of putting forth the effort to exert self-guided integrated thinking... if you don't act beyond your feelings and instead take the path of least resistance, then you give in to laziness, make bad decisions and no longer control your life. The most powerful way to do this is to insulate yourself from all distractions. Then write a problem or goal on a sheet of paper and force yourself to come up with at least 20 ways to solve your problem or reach your goal. The last solutions are the toughest and are usually the most life changing. Make this exercise a life-long habit.
45. Out-think, out-innovate and out-hustle the competition, and vividly visualize yourself as winning before entering into every deal or competitive situation. Maintain a blood-smelling, fighter pilot life-or-death attitude when any deal gets near to a close.
46. First impressions are lasting impressions. Put your best foot forward. People treat you like you teach them to treat you. A success key is positioning yourself at the top of their agenda.
47. The right thing is usually not the easy thing to do. You may sacrifice popularity for rightness, but you'll lose self-esteem for wrongness. Don't be afraid to say "no".
48. If someone lies to you once, he'll lie to you a thousand times. Lying is for thieves and cowards.
49. Have strict and total respect for other people's property.
50. Producing results is more important than proving you're right. To get things done, try to understand others' frames of references, points of view, needs and wants. Then determine what is honest, fair, effective and rational... and act accordingly.
51. Long term success is built on credibility and on establishing enduring loving relationships with quality people based on mutually earned trust. Cut all ties with dishonest, negative or lazy people, and associate with people who share your values. You become whom you associate with.
52. Outside of yourself, you control nothing… but you can manage anything. Don't be preoccupied with things over which you have no control, and don't take things personally.
53. Spend more time working "on" your business than "in" your business.
54. Don't enter into a business relationship with anyone unknown to you without being furnished with references dating back at least 10 years. If he doesn't have good enduring relationships, stay away. Check all representations on which you will rely made by everyone.
55. Enjoy life. Treat it as an adventure. Care passionately about the outcome, but keep it in perspective. Things are seldom as bleak as they seem when they are going wrong - or as good as they seem when they are going well. Lighten up. You'll live longer.
56. Identify exactly what it is you want. This takes a lot of thought. Then don't let anything stand in your way of getting it.
57. You can get any job done through the sheer force of will when combined with uncompromising integrity and competence. Strong leadership is the key.
58. You are responsible for exactly who, what and where you are in life. That will be just as true this time next year. Situations aren't important. How you react to them is. You have to play it where it lies.
59. The foundation of achievement is intense desire. The world's highest achievers have the highest levels of dissatisfaction. Those with the lowest levels are the failures. The best way to build desire is to make resolute choices for the future.
60. Integrate every aspect of your life (body, mind, spirit, relationships, business) and each within itself. Integrating means understanding and digesting a process... and seeing relationships among seemingly unrelated phenomena. It's a sign of innovative genius.
61. Never be deceptive when trying to achieve a personal gain. Shortchanging others results in loss of self-esteem.
62. If your purpose of life is security, you will be a failure. Security is the lowest form of happiness.
63. Never enter into a contract unless all parties benefit. But no partnership is ever 50/50. There will always be inequities.
64. Review the basics of your profession at least once per year.
65. Bitterness, jealousy and anger empower your enemies and enslave you. Negative thinking results in the destruction of property. It is anti-property, therefore anti-capitalistic and anti-life. It also erodes your health. Forgive, learn your lessons, and get on with your life.
66. Most people spend 90% of their time on what they're not best at and what they don't like doing - and only 10% of their time on their best and most enjoyable ability. Geniuses delegate the 90%... and spend all their time on their "unique ability".
67. High self-esteem can only come from moral productivity and achievement.
68. There are an infinite number of new opportunities. Actively seek them out, and position yourself to recognize and take advantage of them.
69. The best way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas. But there is no such thing as a good idea unless it is developed and utilized. Ditto for prospects.
70. For maximum profits, identify and market universal needs, wants and trends. Creating desire, satisfying needs and wants and replacing problems with creative innovations are the essence of profit generation.
71. To maximize opportunities, seek and master the complicated. The major solutions you find will be surprisingly simple, and the competition is minimal.
72. Always have options. Options are a primary source of power. Power also comes from stripping away appearances and seeing things as they really are.
73. Nothing wins more often than superior preparation. Genius is usually preparation.
74. Patience is profitable. Achievement comes from the sum of consistent small efforts, repeated daily.
75. Persistence is a sure path to success with quality activities. Never, ever, ever give up.
76. "I will do this" is the only attitude that works. "I'll try" or "I think" doesn't work.
77. Always work on increasing the size of the pie, rather than just your portion.
78. Rewards are rare without risks, but take only carefully calculated risks. Make sure the odds are on your side.
79. The "how" you get it (with integrity) is more important than the "what".
80. Be explicit and semantically precise in all communications, agreements and dealings. Summarize and write down important discussions... and make sure all sides agree. Putting agreements in writing avoids misunderstandings. Memories are fallible, and death is inevitable (so far).
81. The best way to get started is to get started. Life rewards action... not reaction. Wait for nothing. Attack life. Don't plan to death or ask for permission... but act now... and apologize later.
82. Question everything. Don't believe it's true or right just because it's conventional. Strip all limits from your imagination on every deal and look for an unconventional creative opportunity in every mistake, crisis or problem. Be flexible, and be willing to turn on a dime when advantageous.
83. Have fun. The single key to a successful happy life is finding a vocation you enjoy - one that excites you the most.
84. Nobody gets old by surprise.
85. When it's a matter of producing or starving, people don't starve.
86. You get what you expect, not what you want. Fill your life with positive expectations. Demand the best. Attitude and desire contribute to 90% of your achievement. Anyone can learn the physical mechanics.
87. The surest way to accomplish your business goals is making service to others your primary goal. The key to success is adding value to others' lives.
88. The source of lasting happiness can never come from outside yourself through consuming values - but only from within yourself by creating values. Producing more than you consume is the only justification for existence.
89. Unattended problems will not go away, but will usually get worse. Anticipate and avoid problems - or meet them head on at the outset. Overcome fear by attacking it.
90. Find an excuse to laugh every chance you get, especially when you least feel like it.
91. When someone makes a big issue about his honesty or achievements, he is probably dishonest or a failure.
92. Put the magic power of compound interest to work with every available dollar.
93. The best investment you will ever make is your steady increase of knowledge. Invest in yourself. Thirty minutes of study per day eventually makes you an expert in any subject - but only if you apply that knowledge. Study alone is no substitute for experience. Education is always painfully slow.
94. For each important action you take, ask yourself if you would be embarrassed if it were published. It takes a lifetime of effort to build a good reputation but only a moment of stupidity to destroy it.
95. You are exactly what you believe and think about all day long. Constantly monitor your thoughts.
96. Skepticism is a key to rational thinking. Be especially skeptical of your own cherished beliefs. You might be wrong... and things change.
97. Anxiety is usually caused by lack of control, organization, preparation and action.
98. The first rule of sharpening your mind is to be an alert and sensitive observer. Assume nothing. If it can't be observed, it's not true. Never act on blind faith. Whenever something sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. Refuse to be swayed by emotion when it conflicts with reason. Observation is the genesis of all knowledge and progress... and is the first and last step of every thinking man's tool - The Scientific Method. All science and most progress is built on the Scientific Method (most non-scientists use it by accident). The steps are:
1) OBSERVATION. Gathering and rationally organizing facts. This is where most people fail.
2) INDUCTIVE REASONING. Forming a hypothesis - or a generalization of facts held to be true.
3) EXTRAPOLATION. Making a projection or prediction based on the hypothesis in areas you didn't yet observe.
4) OBSERVATION. A test for the hypothesis to see if it works.
99. Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you. It takes a wise man to learn from his own mistakes... and a genius to learn and profit from the mistakes and experiences of others.
100. The purpose of life is to delay, avoid and eventually reverse death.
BOOKS: (Attitude) Adapt a positive attitude (Dr Vic Loofboro)(Relationships) Be affectionate to those you love (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Laughter) Laugh often (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Sleep) Get a good night's sleep (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Stress) Deal with unhealthy stress symptoms (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Goals) Frequently set new goals (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Health) Don't dwell on minor ailments (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Beliefs) Think and believe you can live to a ripe old age (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Relaxation) Use relaxation techniques to recharge your mind and body (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Relationships) Don't live alone, unless you can't help it. We all need each other. (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Discipline) People will do almost anything to stay in their comfort zones. If you want to accomplish anything, get out of your comfort zone. Strive to increase order and discipline in your life. Discipline usually means doing the opposite of what you feel like doing. (Dave Kekich)
(Discipline) The easy roads to discipline are 1) setting deadlines, 2) discovering and doing what you do best and what's important and enjoyable to you and 3) focusing on habits by replacing your bad habits and thought patterns, one-by-one, over time, with good habits and thought patterns.(Dave Kekich)
() You're successful when you like who and what you are. Success includes achievement… while choosing and directing your own activities. It means enjoying intimate relationships and loving what you do in life. (Dave Kekich)
(Wealth) Produce for wealth creation and accumulation. Invest profits for wealth preservation and growth. Produce more than you consume and save a minimum of 20% of all earnings. Pay yourself first. (Dave Kekich)
(Gratitude) Always show gratitude when earned, monetarily when possible. (Dave Kekich)
(Regrets) Real regrets only come from not doing your best. All else is out of your control. You're measured by results only. Trade excuses and "trying" for results, and expect half-hearted results from half-hearted efforts. Do more than is expected of you. Life's easy when you live it the hard way... and hard if you try to live it the easy way. (Dave Kekich)
(Commitments) Think carefully before making any offers, commitments or promises, no matter how seemingly trivial. These are all contracts and must be honored. These also include self-resolutions. (Dave Kekich)
(Time) Cherish time, your most valuable resource. You can never make up the time you lose. It's the most important value for any productive happy individual and is the only limitation to all accomplishment. To waste time is to waste your life. The most important choices you'll ever make are how you use your time. (Dave Kekich)
(Relationships) To have a friend, a man must be one. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Equality) All men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Self-Reliance) God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Preperation) Be prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Creativity) A man should make the most of what equipment he has. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Government) This government OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people' shall live always. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Government) Men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Bartering) Sooner or later...somewhere...somehow...we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Truth) All things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Faith) I believe in my Creator, my country, my fellow man. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Laughter) Laugh often (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Sleep) Get a good night's sleep (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Stress) Deal with unhealthy stress symptoms (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Goals) Frequently set new goals (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Health) Don't dwell on minor ailments (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Beliefs) Think and believe you can live to a ripe old age (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Relaxation) Use relaxation techniques to recharge your mind and body (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Relationships) Don't live alone, unless you can't help it. We all need each other. (Dr Vic Loofboro)
(Discipline) People will do almost anything to stay in their comfort zones. If you want to accomplish anything, get out of your comfort zone. Strive to increase order and discipline in your life. Discipline usually means doing the opposite of what you feel like doing. (Dave Kekich)
(Discipline) The easy roads to discipline are 1) setting deadlines, 2) discovering and doing what you do best and what's important and enjoyable to you and 3) focusing on habits by replacing your bad habits and thought patterns, one-by-one, over time, with good habits and thought patterns.(Dave Kekich)
() You're successful when you like who and what you are. Success includes achievement… while choosing and directing your own activities. It means enjoying intimate relationships and loving what you do in life. (Dave Kekich)
(Wealth) Produce for wealth creation and accumulation. Invest profits for wealth preservation and growth. Produce more than you consume and save a minimum of 20% of all earnings. Pay yourself first. (Dave Kekich)
(Gratitude) Always show gratitude when earned, monetarily when possible. (Dave Kekich)
(Regrets) Real regrets only come from not doing your best. All else is out of your control. You're measured by results only. Trade excuses and "trying" for results, and expect half-hearted results from half-hearted efforts. Do more than is expected of you. Life's easy when you live it the hard way... and hard if you try to live it the easy way. (Dave Kekich)
(Commitments) Think carefully before making any offers, commitments or promises, no matter how seemingly trivial. These are all contracts and must be honored. These also include self-resolutions. (Dave Kekich)
(Time) Cherish time, your most valuable resource. You can never make up the time you lose. It's the most important value for any productive happy individual and is the only limitation to all accomplishment. To waste time is to waste your life. The most important choices you'll ever make are how you use your time. (Dave Kekich)
(Relationships) To have a friend, a man must be one. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Equality) All men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Self-Reliance) God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Preperation) Be prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Creativity) A man should make the most of what equipment he has. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Government) This government OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people' shall live always. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Government) Men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Bartering) Sooner or later...somewhere...somehow...we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Truth) All things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever. (Lone Ranger Creed)
(Faith) I believe in my Creator, my country, my fellow man. (Lone Ranger Creed)
The Gabriel Robins Collection "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"His ignorance is encyclopedic"- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."- Charlton Heston (1924-)
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."- Robert Pirsig (1948-)
"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."- Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."- Saint Augustine (354-430)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."- Richard Dawkins (1941-)
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"This book fills a much-needed gap."- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."- e e cummings (1894-1962)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Assassins!"- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
"I'll moider da bum."- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."- Yogi Berra
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."- George Burns (1896-1996)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"There are no facts, only interpretations."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."- Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."- Bjarne Stroustrup
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back."- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
"Dancing is silent poetry."- Simonides (556-468bc)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."- Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it."- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song
"I have nothing to declare except my genius."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."- unknown
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."- Sharon Stone
"If you are going through hell, keep going."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
"Facts are the enemy of truth."- Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."- Anais Nin (1903-1977)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."- Frederick (II) the Great
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."- George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."- Steven Wright
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."- Vince Lombardi
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."- James Branch Cabell
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."- Umberto Eco
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."- Jimmy Durante
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working."- Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
"There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet."- Randy Pausch (1960-2008)
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."- Frank Zappa
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."- Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."- Isaac Asimov
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."- G. B. Burgin
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."- Jimi Hendrix
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."- Goethe (1749-1832)
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."- Richard Bach
"A witty saying proves nothing."- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera."- James Stephens (1882-1950)
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."- Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."- Will Durant
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."- Mario Andretti
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"I'll sleep when I'm dead."- Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head."- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together."- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"- Bumper Sticker
"God, please save me from your followers!"- Bumper Sticker
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Luck is the residue of design."- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."- Mel Brooks
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Wit is educated insolence."- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't"- Erica Jong (1942-)
"Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man."- Erica Jong (1942-)
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."- Maya Angelou (1928-)
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."- Gore Vidal
"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them."- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."- Guy Davenport
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
"I would have made a good Pope."- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."- W.B. Prescott
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."- John von Neumann (1903-1957)
"The mistakes are all waiting to be made."- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."- C. A. R. Hoare
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"What do you take me for, an idiot?"- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon."- Bill Hirst
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Logic is in the eye of the logician."- Gloria Steinem
"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."- Goethe (1749-1832)
"In the end, everything is a gag."- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."- Lucille S. Harper
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."- Yogi Berra
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"He who hesitates is a damned fool."- Mae West (1892-1980)
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."- Gail Godwin
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."- Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"I am not young enough to know everything."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."- Katherine Cebrian
"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it."- Steven Wright
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."- Oliver Herford (1863-1935)
"I have read your book and much like it."- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"The covers of this book are too far apart."- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."- Mae West (1892-1980)
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
"No Sane man will dance."- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
"Vote early and vote often."- Al Capone (1899-1947)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Hell is other people."- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."- Thomas Jones
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."- Al Capone (1899-1947)
"The gods too are fond of a joke."- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."- Gloria Leonard
"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."- Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."- Robert Orben
"The cynics are right nine times out of ten."- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."- Revelation 6:8
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Plato was a bore."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk."- Harold Robbins
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."- Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
"What about things like bullets?"- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?"- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday."- Woody Allen (1935-)
"I don't feel good."- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."- Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)
"Men have become the tools of their tools."- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant."- Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines
"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."- Gore Vidal
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."- Woody Allen (1935-)
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually."- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."- Charles William Stubbs
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."- George Santayana (1863-1952)
"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."- Fred Allen (1894-1956)
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"Why don't you write books people can read?"- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."- Tom Stoppard
"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting."- Karl Wallenda
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."- Sun Tzu
"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."- Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)
" The best way to predict the future is to invent it."- Alan Kay
"Never mistake motion for action."- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."- Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)
"Hell is paved with good samaritans."- William M. Holden
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."- Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)
"Well done is better than well said."- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"The average person thinks he isn't."- Father Larry Lorenzoni
"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."- William Congreve (1670-1729)
"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted."- Helen Rowland (1876-1950)
"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century."- Lewis Perelman
"Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency."- Lewis Perelman
"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal."- Sigfried Hulzer
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
"I think it would be a good idea."- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."- Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."- Irving Kristol
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"- H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood."- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."- Tom Clancy
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
"Half this game is ninety percent mental."- Yogi Berra
"There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole."- Bill Wulf
"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Write drunk; edit sober."- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Love is friendship set on fire."- Jeremy Taylor
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
"My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate."- Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession was
"Woman was God's second mistake."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
"He would make a lovely corpse."- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."- Irvin S. Cobb
"I worship the quicksand he walks in."- Art Buchwald
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."- Paul Valery (1871-1945)
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing
"#3 pencils and quadrille pads."- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.
"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray."- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"The truth is more important than the facts."- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
"There are only two tragedies in life: one isother is as though everything is a miracle."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955 not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"His ignorance is encyclopedic"- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."- Charlton Heston (1924-)
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."- Robert Pirsig (1948-)
"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."- Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."- Saint Augustine (354-430)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."- Richard Dawkins (1941-)
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"This book fills a much-needed gap."- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."- e e cummings (1894-1962)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Assassins!"- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
"I'll moider da bum."- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."- Yogi Berra
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."- George Burns (1896-1996)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"There are no facts, only interpretations."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."- Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."- Bjarne Stroustrup
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back."- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
"Dancing is silent poetry."- Simonides (556-468bc)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."- Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it."- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song
"I have nothing to declare except my genius."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."- unknown
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."- Sharon Stone
"If you are going through hell, keep going."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
"Facts are the enemy of truth."- Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."- Anais Nin (1903-1977)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."- Frederick (II) the Great
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."- George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."- Steven Wright
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."- Vince Lombardi
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."- James Branch Cabell
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."- Umberto Eco
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."- Jimmy Durante
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working."- Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
"There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet."- Randy Pausch (1960-2008)
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."- Frank Zappa
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."- Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."- Isaac Asimov
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."- G. B. Burgin
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."- Jimi Hendrix
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."- Goethe (1749-1832)
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."- Richard Bach
"A witty saying proves nothing."- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera."- James Stephens (1882-1950)
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."- Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."- Will Durant
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."- Mario Andretti
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"I'll sleep when I'm dead."- Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head."- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together."- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"- Bumper Sticker
"God, please save me from your followers!"- Bumper Sticker
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Luck is the residue of design."- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."- Mel Brooks
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Wit is educated insolence."- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't"- Erica Jong (1942-)
"Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man."- Erica Jong (1942-)
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."- Maya Angelou (1928-)
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."- Gore Vidal
"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them."- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."- Guy Davenport
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
"I would have made a good Pope."- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."- W.B. Prescott
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."- John von Neumann (1903-1957)
"The mistakes are all waiting to be made."- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."- C. A. R. Hoare
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"What do you take me for, an idiot?"- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon."- Bill Hirst
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Logic is in the eye of the logician."- Gloria Steinem
"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."- Goethe (1749-1832)
"In the end, everything is a gag."- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."- Lucille S. Harper
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."- Yogi Berra
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"He who hesitates is a damned fool."- Mae West (1892-1980)
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."- Gail Godwin
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."- Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"I am not young enough to know everything."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."- Katherine Cebrian
"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it."- Steven Wright
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."- Oliver Herford (1863-1935)
"I have read your book and much like it."- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"The covers of this book are too far apart."- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."- Mae West (1892-1980)
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
"No Sane man will dance."- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
"Vote early and vote often."- Al Capone (1899-1947)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Hell is other people."- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."- Thomas Jones
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."- Al Capone (1899-1947)
"The gods too are fond of a joke."- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."- Gloria Leonard
"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."- Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."- Robert Orben
"The cynics are right nine times out of ten."- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."- Revelation 6:8
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Plato was a bore."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk."- Harold Robbins
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."- Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
"What about things like bullets?"- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?"- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday."- Woody Allen (1935-)
"I don't feel good."- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."- Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)
"Men have become the tools of their tools."- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant."- Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines
"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."- Gore Vidal
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."- Woody Allen (1935-)
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually."- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."- Charles William Stubbs
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."- George Santayana (1863-1952)
"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."- Fred Allen (1894-1956)
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"Why don't you write books people can read?"- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."- Tom Stoppard
"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting."- Karl Wallenda
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."- Sun Tzu
"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."- Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)
" The best way to predict the future is to invent it."- Alan Kay
"Never mistake motion for action."- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."- Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)
"Hell is paved with good samaritans."- William M. Holden
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."- Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)
"Well done is better than well said."- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"The average person thinks he isn't."- Father Larry Lorenzoni
"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."- William Congreve (1670-1729)
"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted."- Helen Rowland (1876-1950)
"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century."- Lewis Perelman
"Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency."- Lewis Perelman
"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal."- Sigfried Hulzer
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
"I think it would be a good idea."- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."- Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."- Irving Kristol
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"- H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood."- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."- Tom Clancy
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
"Half this game is ninety percent mental."- Yogi Berra
"There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole."- Bill Wulf
"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Write drunk; edit sober."- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Love is friendship set on fire."- Jeremy Taylor
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
"My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate."- Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession was
"Woman was God's second mistake."- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
"He would make a lovely corpse."- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."- Irvin S. Cobb
"I worship the quicksand he walks in."- Art Buchwald
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."- Paul Valery (1871-1945)
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing
"#3 pencils and quadrille pads."- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.
"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray."- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"The truth is more important than the facts."- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
"There are only two tragedies in life: one isother is as though everything is a miracle."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955 not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
BRIDGES TO OPPORTUNITY--- Prepare Yourself for Greatness as You Learn From The Giants! ---
BRIDGES are an iconic symbol of "The Good LIfe". One end of every bridge you will ever cross represents 'where you are today'and the other end represents 'where you want to be' in life.
BEFORE YOU CAN... HAVE what you want to have; BE what you want to be/become; GO where you want to go; DO what you want to do or LEARN more about what you want to learn more about, in every case, there's 'a bridge' you have to cross; there is something you have to do to get there.
SOME OF LIFE'S GREATEST REWARDS... can not be realized until after you've crossed an 'opportunity bridge' in your life. Every day of your life, you will 'pass up' more opportunity than you could possibly ever develop over the balance of two lifetimes.
YOUR LIFE TODAY... is the physical manifestation of your lifetime collection of your 'Ideas, Decisions and Actions' which are based on your lifetime collection of 'Beliefs, Attitudes and Skills.'
YOU ARE THE MASTER of the 'Ideas, Decisions and Actions' going on in real-time, in your conscious mind.
YOU ARE ALSO A SLAVE to to your own lifetime collection of 'Beliefs, Attitudes and Skills', stored in your sub-conscious mind.
ESSENTIALLY... the life you are currently living is "The 'total package end result' of your own thoughts."
"LEARN FROM THE GIANTS" gives you access to the greatest thinkers and the most successful people who have ever lived as your 'teachers'. The one single key to you having everything... you do not yet have in your life.. is to begin by exposing yourself to the kinds of beliefs, attitudes, skills, ideas, decisions and actions that can and will alter your life in any direction you choose.
As your thinking changes, so will your life.
THINK of your BRAIN as a FARM...A farm you inherited for free, at birth. Nothing grows on your 'farm' unless you plant some seeds. THINK of 'ideas' as the 'seeds' you plant on your farm. Know this...
(1) The more 'seeds' you plant today, the more fruit you get to pick at harvest time.
(2) Good quality fruit only comes from good quality 'seeds'. Be careful where your 'seeds' came from. Not everybody passes out the best quality 'seeds'.
(3) The Universal Law of 'Sowing and Reaping' says you only get to harvest exactly what you plant. Plant carrots, you'll never get back watermelons. Translation: Nobody every harvested good fruit from bad 'seeds'. Nobody ever harvested bad fruit from good 'seeds'. The quality of the fruit you get to harvest can be no better than the quality of the seeds you planted.
(4) THE BEST PART of the Universal Law of Sowing and Reaping: You always get back more than you planted!!! Plant a handful of 'seeds' --- ultimately --- get back more bushels of fruit than you, your family and everyone you know can eat. Get busy. Work your farm.
Everyday, keep planting those seeds!
Everyday, spend at least as much time feeding your brain as you do feeding your body. Remember this, more GOLD has been mined from 'the mind of man' than has ever come out of the ground. Treat learning like an Olympic Event and then, give it everything you've got, as you go for the Gold!!!
For 1,000's of years...The greatest achievers who ever lived have freely shared their tips, tricks, shortcuts, philosophies and wisdom with anyone who would listen. Some of those who listened recorded their words for future generations. I have been collecting these ideas, formulas, recipes, road maps and blueprints that lead to living a more successful life for the past 50 years. I did this for my own personal use. This year, I turned 65. Realizing my time is short, I decided to share my private collect of these ideas, the thinking of the greatest achievers who ever lived, in the form of an e-book, "10,000 Years of Wisdom" ( 4,000 lessons / 300 pages / 1 book).
Take action. Don't be afraid to fail. Monitor your accomplishments. Adjust and improve as necessary.
BRIDGES are an iconic symbol of "The Good LIfe". One end of every bridge you will ever cross represents 'where you are today'and the other end represents 'where you want to be' in life.
BEFORE YOU CAN... HAVE what you want to have; BE what you want to be/become; GO where you want to go; DO what you want to do or LEARN more about what you want to learn more about, in every case, there's 'a bridge' you have to cross; there is something you have to do to get there.
SOME OF LIFE'S GREATEST REWARDS... can not be realized until after you've crossed an 'opportunity bridge' in your life. Every day of your life, you will 'pass up' more opportunity than you could possibly ever develop over the balance of two lifetimes.
YOUR LIFE TODAY... is the physical manifestation of your lifetime collection of your 'Ideas, Decisions and Actions' which are based on your lifetime collection of 'Beliefs, Attitudes and Skills.'
YOU ARE THE MASTER of the 'Ideas, Decisions and Actions' going on in real-time, in your conscious mind.
YOU ARE ALSO A SLAVE to to your own lifetime collection of 'Beliefs, Attitudes and Skills', stored in your sub-conscious mind.
ESSENTIALLY... the life you are currently living is "The 'total package end result' of your own thoughts."
"LEARN FROM THE GIANTS" gives you access to the greatest thinkers and the most successful people who have ever lived as your 'teachers'. The one single key to you having everything... you do not yet have in your life.. is to begin by exposing yourself to the kinds of beliefs, attitudes, skills, ideas, decisions and actions that can and will alter your life in any direction you choose.
As your thinking changes, so will your life.
THINK of your BRAIN as a FARM...A farm you inherited for free, at birth. Nothing grows on your 'farm' unless you plant some seeds. THINK of 'ideas' as the 'seeds' you plant on your farm. Know this...
(1) The more 'seeds' you plant today, the more fruit you get to pick at harvest time.
(2) Good quality fruit only comes from good quality 'seeds'. Be careful where your 'seeds' came from. Not everybody passes out the best quality 'seeds'.
(3) The Universal Law of 'Sowing and Reaping' says you only get to harvest exactly what you plant. Plant carrots, you'll never get back watermelons. Translation: Nobody every harvested good fruit from bad 'seeds'. Nobody ever harvested bad fruit from good 'seeds'. The quality of the fruit you get to harvest can be no better than the quality of the seeds you planted.
(4) THE BEST PART of the Universal Law of Sowing and Reaping: You always get back more than you planted!!! Plant a handful of 'seeds' --- ultimately --- get back more bushels of fruit than you, your family and everyone you know can eat. Get busy. Work your farm.
Everyday, keep planting those seeds!
Everyday, spend at least as much time feeding your brain as you do feeding your body. Remember this, more GOLD has been mined from 'the mind of man' than has ever come out of the ground. Treat learning like an Olympic Event and then, give it everything you've got, as you go for the Gold!!!
For 1,000's of years...The greatest achievers who ever lived have freely shared their tips, tricks, shortcuts, philosophies and wisdom with anyone who would listen. Some of those who listened recorded their words for future generations. I have been collecting these ideas, formulas, recipes, road maps and blueprints that lead to living a more successful life for the past 50 years. I did this for my own personal use. This year, I turned 65. Realizing my time is short, I decided to share my private collect of these ideas, the thinking of the greatest achievers who ever lived, in the form of an e-book, "10,000 Years of Wisdom" ( 4,000 lessons / 300 pages / 1 book).
Take action. Don't be afraid to fail. Monitor your accomplishments. Adjust and improve as necessary.
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There is so much more valuable information "in the pipeline" headed your way. Money makes all worthwhile projects possible. Lack of money stops anything good from happening. If you would be kind enough to "show your attitude of gratitude" for what you are finding on these pages by making a (you-choose-the-amount) donation, we will be forever grateful.
One of the primary projects we need funding for is the production of a (FREE) 70-minute CD (or) (FREE) mp3 download for every high school and college age student in America. CD content that teaches the "real world basics" of how-to's: a healthy mind and body; time management skills; relationships skills; and money management skills. Essentially, we'd like to teach young people how to think better, make better decisions and take the kinds of actions that lead to a productive and rewarding future.
Your kindness and donation will help to turn this "wonderful idea into a serious reality" for every student in America!
Thank You.
Jim Vaughan, Editor
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