| The
quotes below are some of my favorites accumulated over the years. Quotes that
a person appreciates provide insight into what is important to that person. Hopefully
this selection of quotes will provide you some insight into what I appreciate
and value.
"Under
their Constitution, the American People can have just about anything they
want. But
it seems they just don't want very much." -- Eugene V. Debs
"Inaction
is action." -- Ralph Nader
"Our
ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know." --
M. King Hubbert
"The
universal language is respect. Despite the many different gestures or behaviors
people
bring with them, people will respect and work with those who are willing to
listen and understand." -- Yu-Fen Huang
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work
twelve hours a day." -- Robert Frost
"If
you do not passionately and consistently advocate and support that which
you believe,
then you do not deserve a future of progress." -- Paul Dumouchelle
"Forests
precede civilizations and deserts follow." -- Chateaubriand
"If
your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail." -- Mark
Twain
"The
only place where democracy comes before work is in the dictionary." -- Ralph
Nader "What
you can do, or dream you can, begin it:
Boldness has genius, power, and magic
in it." -- Goethe "You
never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model
that makes the old one obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller
"When
the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the
government, there is tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Revolutions are born of hope, not despair." -- Peter Kropotkin
"To turn
your back on the corrupt Republican Party and the still more corrupt Democratic
Party—the
gold-dust lackeys of the ruling class counts for
still more after you have stepped out of those popular and corrupt capitalist
parties to join a minority party that has an ideal, that stands for a principle,
and fights for a cause. This will be the most important change you have ever
made and the time will come when you will thank me for having made the suggestion." --
Eugene V. Debs, from "The Canton Speech" which got him sentenced to prison
during World War I
"Ask
a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you're
a fool for the rest of your life." -- Chinese proverb
"God
is a concept by which we measure our pain." -- John Lennon
"Imagination
is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination reaches around
the world." --
Albert
Einstein
"Not only that
I do not believe in a personal God, such thought to me seems childish indeed."
-- Albert Einstein (1952)
"What humanity
owes to Buddha, Moses and Jesus, is of more value to me than all achievements
of the investigating and constructive mind." -- Albert Einstein (1937)
"I
don't know how World War III will be fought, but I do know that World War IV will
be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
"If mankind wants
to survive, we will need a new way of thinking." -- Albert Einstein "I love you just
like I am." -- Albert Einstein
"Wisdom is not
the result of education in school. It is the result of a lifelong struggle
to achieve it." -- Albert Einstein
"Only the life devoted to other beings is worth living." -- Albert Einstein
"Everything depends on
the observer." -- Albert Einstein (1905)
"It is your mind that creates this world." -- Buddha (2500 BCE)
"So I live without meat
or fish and feel quite well with it. It seems to me that man was not being
born as a predator. Nothing is better for human health
and for surviving than a well balanced vegetarian diet." -- Albert Einstein
"When
one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully
upon
the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." --Alexander
Graham Bell
"Discovery
is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought."
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgi
"You
have brains in your head, and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself
any
direction you choose." -- Dr. Seuss
"It's
easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for
you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date." -- Roger von Oech "If
you can dream it, you can do it." -- Walt Disney
"It
is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Never
mistake activity for achievement." -- Mabel Newcomber "Some
men see things as they are and ask 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask,
'why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw "The
greatest thing in this world is not so much where you stand as in what direction
you are moving." -- Goethe "It's
amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions."
-- Charles F. Kettering "Millions
say the apple fell, but Newton was the one to ask why." -- Bernard Baruch "If
you have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering
the greatest fact of all." -- W. A. Durant "A
riot is the language of the unheard." -- Martin Luther King Jr. "We
must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must
respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."
-- George Santayana "The
future is of our own making -- and the most striking characteristic of the century
is just that development." -- Joseph Conrad "Your
imagination can focus on ugliness, distress, and failure, or it can picture beauty,
success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to serve you."
-- Philip Conley "The
human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I
call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the
fish." -- Buckminster Fuller "It
may be those who do most, dream most." -- Stephen Leacock "If
a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured
or far away." -- Henry David Thoreau "If
you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you always got."
-- Author Unknown "My
interest is in the future....because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
-- Charles F. Kettering "We
don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -- Anais Nin "Creative
thinking may simply mean the realization that there's no particular virtue in
doing things the way you have always done them." -- Rudolph Flesch "Often
you just have to rely on your intuition." -- Bill Gates "Life
is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been,
but what we yearn to be." -- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Money
never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money." -- W. J. Cameron "I
shut my eyes in order to see." -- Paul Gauguin "If
we wish to make a new world, we have the material ready. The first one, too, was
made out of chaos." -- Robert Quillen "Far
away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but
I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they
lead." -- Louisa May Alcott "Love
doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
-- Franklin Jones "People
don't really care how much you know until they know how much you care." --
Mike McNight "The
real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation
that they can make it work or make it better." -- Barbara Pletcher "It's
a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, very
often you get it." -- Somerset Maugham "When
you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed,' you find
it simply means to follow through." -- F. W. Nichol "There
is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity." -- Tom Peters "Everyone
in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change;
it's not a choice." -- Max DePree "The
world is advancing, and that means than an organization must be willing to change
and improve. The only sacred cow in an organization is its principles." --
Buck Rodgers "People
are far more interesting and successful when they are less concerned about being
normal, and more concerned about being natural." -- Michael Nolan "Lack
of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle." -- Ken Hakuta "Work
hard to keep things simple. Simple solutions solve complex problems; complex solutions
rarely accomplish anything." -- Crag O. McCaw "I
use not only the brain I have but all I can borrow." -- Woodrow Wilson "This
became a credo of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
-- Bette Davis "You
can either take action or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are
great, but they are so unpredictable." -- Peter Drucker "Losers
fix the blame; winners fix the situation. Losers say, 'Why don't they do something?'
Winners say, 'Here's something I can do." -- Author Unknown "Great
discoveries and achievements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds."
-- Alexander Graham Bell "All
humanity is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are
movable, and those who move!" -- Benjamin Franklin "To
go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure. But the person
who risks nothing cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Only a person who
risks is free." -- The Dilemma "There
are two ways of exerting one's strength -- one is pushing down, the other is pulling
up." -- Booker T. Washington "The
greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what
you do best, you are helping others." -- Roger Williams "It
is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and
try another. But above all, try something." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Fail
forward fast." -- Tom Peters "Do
what you can, with what you have, where you are." -- Theodore Roosevelt "Luck
is earned. Luck doesn't mean that the whole world is out to do you good. Luck
is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you
get a break." -- Paul Hawken "Honesty
is the first chapter of the book of wisdom." -- Thomas Jefferson "Formula
for success: Underpromise; and overdeliver." -- Tom Peters "There
is more to life than simply increasing its speed." -- Mahatma Gandhi "Wherever
you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
-- Peter Drucker If
you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have
to be pushed. The vision pulls you," -- Steven Jobs "I
could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This
was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me." -- Abraham Lincoln "Let
me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in
my tenacity." -- Louis Pasteur "If
a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep even as Michelangelo painted.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause
to say, 'Here lived a great streetsweeper.'" -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I
never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come
by accident; they came by work." -- Thomas Edison "There
are risks and costs to a program of action -- but they are far less than the long-range
risks and costs of comfortable inaction." -- John F. Kennedy "Eighty
percent of success is showing up." -- Woody Allen "And
let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint
not." -- Galatians 6:9 "Those
who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by those who are doing it."
-- Author Unknown "Anyone
with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds." -- Mark Twain "Pay
no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic."
-- Jean Sibelius "No
matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you." -- Wilma Rudolph "Leadership
is action, not position." -- Donald H. McGannon "High
achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move
into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams
come true." -- Dr. Robert Schuller "A
question that sometimes drives me hazy; am I or are the others crazy?" --
Albert Einstein "It's
not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not
dare that things are difficult." -- Seneca "Those
you have followed passionately, gladly, zealously have made you feel like somebody.
It wasn't merely because they had the job or the power -- they somehow made you
feel terrific to be around them." -- Irwin Federman "Trust
each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend
apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously
unaware." -- David Armistead "Anything
I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death."
-- Betty Bender "Only
begin and then the mind grows heated; only begin and the task will be completed."
-- Goethe
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