897. There are ways of killing yourself without killing yourself. --John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever)
898. A man who does not spend time with his family can never be a real man. —Marlon Bando (Don Carleone in the Godfather)
899. "You know the world is going totally crazy when: the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the Americas cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance and Germany doesn't want to go to war" —Anon
900. "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." -Dale Carnegie (Brad Ellman)
901. It is better to be feared than loved. -Machiavelli
902. It's the little things that make a big difference. -Stew Weis
903. Don't give up. Keep going. There is always a chance that you will stumble over something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down. ~ Ann Landers
904. The English Philosopher Isaiah Berlin said that "There are two kinds of freedom: Freedom from and freedom to." For me the freedom from meetings, the freedom from the obligations of a bureaucracy that comes with running a large department, the freedom from all those things that seem to consume so much of my time every day--that's important, and then, the freedom to. The freedom to think, the freedom to explore avenues outside perhaps of modern art. To go beyond the boundaries that are defined by the job I have now into a broader understanding of visual arts and culture is something that I really welcome. --Kirk Varnedoe (Art Historian and Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the New York MOMA (1988-2003) and Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study)
905. What makes modern art modern? We often think of modern art as being something invented out of a void; that something almost dropped in from Mars. But, in fact if you look at some of the most profound innovations of modern art; the way it changed our notion of space, the way color was used, you'll see that what they involved is tinkering with a set of inherited conventions, a set of hierarchies of what was important and what wasn't important, and reshuffling the deck, inverting the hierarchies, changing the expectations, using the same conventions, but against each other in unexpected ways, and its that sense of playing with the rules of the game that make modern art experimental, that make it propose a different arrangement of the things that we know. --Kirk Varnedoe (Art Historian and Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the New York MOMA (1988-2003) and Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study)
906. I felt honestly that reducing stress in my life might be important in prolonging it. --Kirk Varnedoe (Art Historian and Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the New York MOMA (1988-2003) and Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study)
907. Terrorism is the deliberate killing of innocent people. It is murder turned into a political weapon. You target a population, you kill at random among that population aiming to force its political leaders or it government to make concessions, to surrender, to go away, to yield to your desires. —Dr. Michael Walzer (Political Philosopher at the Institute for Advanced Study)
908. A work of art is something that has constant meanings atatched to it, added to it, and going on for ever. —Dr. Oled Grabar
909. A car is the closest thing you will ever create to something that is alive. —Sir William Lion (founder of Jaguar)
910. You should not go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. —Anon
911. Freedom is not free. --Anon
912. “In the temple of science are many mansions… and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there.
Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, it would be noticeably emptier but there would still be some men of both present and past times left inside….If the types we have just expelled were the only types there were, the temple would never have existed any more than one can have a wood consisting of nothing but creepers…those who have found favor with the angel…are somewhat odd, uncommunicative, solitary fellows, really less like each other than the hosts of the rejected.
What has brought them to the temple…no single answer will cover…escape from everyday life; with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the still pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity.
The passage is from a 1918 speech by a young German scientist named Albert Einstein.
913. Happiness isn't getting what you want; it's wanting what you get. --Garth Brooks
914. Happiness is a by-product of achievement. --Anon
915. Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. --Anon
916. Salvation, whatever that may be, will not be found amidst the external; it awaits within. -- Thanos
917. We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists. . .in the loved one, perfection. -- Sidney Poitier
918. We are not here to live our lives in the best way possible; to perform to the highest standards of excellence; to leave a legacy that will stand the test of time; to make this world a better place for our children and their children, and their children; to amaze other worldly life with our unassailable morality. We are here cause God needed a comedy channel. -- Young Liu
919. An unchallenged lie is a truth. --Dr. Phil
920. "The music industry is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs." --Hunter S. Thompson
921. -Stereotypes always have a grain of truth to them. --Anon
922. To grasp 20th Century art you ought to see side by side, everything Matisse and I were doing. --Pablo Picasso
923. I don't care about money. I like to spend money. I don't have respect for money. It is just paper to me. -Gianni Versace.
924. There surely is some price in life (you pay) for doing what you want to do. It can't all be roses and chocolate. -John Malkovic
925. Sadam Hussein was neither a good soldier or a good politician. He was a bully, and the way he ran his country was pathetic. It was like a bouncer owning and running the bar. --Todd Ehrlich (5-3-2003)
926. Einstein reffering to scientists: "The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshipper or lover. The daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart. “
927. Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world. He then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it….He makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and serenity which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience….The supreme task…is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them….” --Albert Einstein
928. “Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people—what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
929. “Everything is an analogy” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
930. “Impatience is close to boredom but always results from one cause: an underestimation of the amount of time the job will take.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
931. “We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
932. “We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly. The time for real reunification of art and technology is really long overdue.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
933. “A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
934. “Classic Knowledge, the knowledge taught by the Church of Reason, is the engine and all the boxcars.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
935. “Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors. It’s this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
936. “He used the number zero as a starter. Zero, originally a Hindu number, was introduced to the West by the Arabs during the Middle Ages and was unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans. How was that? He wondered. Had nature so subtly hidden zero that all the Greeks and all the Romans—millions of them—couldn’t find it?” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
937. “…ancient logical construct known as a dilemma. A dilemma, which is Greek for “two premises,” has been likened to the front end of an angry and charging bull.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
938. “Philosophical mysticism, the idea that truth is indefinable and can be apprehended only by nonrational means, has been with us since the beginning of history.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
939. “Grades really cover up failure to teach.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
940. "No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going.” --Cromwell
941. “There’s an entire Branch of Philosophy concerned with the definition of quality, known as esthetics. Its question, What is meant by beautiful?, goes back to antiquity.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
942. “Quality was a cleavage term. What every intellectual analyst looks for. You take your analytic knife, put the point directly on the term Quality and just tap, not hard, gently, and the whole world splits, cleaves, right in two—hip and square, classic and romantic, technological and humanistic—and the split is clean. There’s no mess. No slop. No little items that could be one way or the other.” --Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
943. “The truth knocks on the door and you say, “go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
944. “There’s nothing up ahead that’s any better than it is right here.”
945. “If all of human knowledge, everything that’s known, is believed to be an enormous hierarchic structure, then the high country of the mind is found at the uppermost reaches of this structure in the most general, the most abstract considerations of all. Few people travel here. There’s no real profit to be made from wandering through it, yet like this high country of the material world all around us, it has its own austere beauty that to some people make the hardships of traveling through it seem worthwhile.”
946. “…empiricist, one who believes all knowledge is derived exclusively from the senses.”
947. “…the separate worlds of classical and romantic understanding.”
948. “The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.”
949. “…the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism.”
950. “Socrates old goal of truth, in it’s ever-changing forms, as it’s revealed by the process of rationality.”
951. “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.”
952. “You have to have faith in reason because there isn’t anything else.”
953. “To travel is better than to arrive”
954. “We live in entirely different time structures”
955. “People haven’t paid much attention to this before because the big concern has been with food, clothing and shelter for everyone and technology has provided these.”
956. “It’s analogous to the kind of hang-up Sir Issac Newton had when he wanted to solve problems of instantaneous rates of change. It was unreasonable in his time to think of anything changing within a zero amount of time. Yet it’s almost necessary mathematically to work with other zero qualities, such as points in space and time that no one thought were unreasonable at all, although there was no real difference. So what Newton did say, in effect, ‘We’re going to presume there’s such a thing as instantaneous change, and see if we can find ways of determining what it is in various applications.’ The result of this presumption is the branch of mathematics known as the calculus, which every engineer uses today. Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reason to handle technological ugliness. The trouble is that the expansion has to be made at the roots, not at the branches, and that’s what makes it hard to see.”
957. “We’re living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experiences.”
958. “The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus’ discovery of a new world. It just shook people up.”
959. “You’ve never had to understand it really. It’s always been completely bankrupt with regard to abstract art. Nonrepresentative art is one of the root experiences I’m talking about. Some people still condemn it because it doesn’t make ‘sense.’”
960. “The rhetoricians of ancient Greece were the first teachers in the history of the Western world.”
961. “Then we say perfunctory things about how good it’s all been and how we’ll see each other soon, and this is suddenly very sad to have to talk like this—like casual acquaintances.”
962. “It had a certain syrup, but it didn’t pour.” --Gertrude Stein
963. “Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.”
964. “To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it’s just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to appear today, unidentified, with the same message he spoke many years ago, his mental stability would be challenged.”
965. “The more you look the more you see.”
966. Eliminate the whole degree-and-grading system and then you’ll get real education.
967. “a student completely conditioned to work for a grade rather than for the knowledge the grade was supposed to represent.”
968. “But what had happened? The student, with no hard feelings on anybody’s part, would have flunked himself out. Good! This is what should have happened. He wasn’t there for a real education in the first place and had no real business there at all. A large amount of money and effort had been saved and there would be no stigma of failure and ruin to haunt him the rest of his life. No bridges had been burned. The student’s biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, if you don’t whip me, I won’t work. He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work. And the cart of civilization, which he supposedly was being trained to pull, was just going to have to creak along a little slower without him.
969. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” –Paul Valery
970. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." -Sir Isaac Newton
971. "To achieve....you have to know what you are doing, and that's real power."- Ayn Rand (Brad Ellman)
972. What Las Vegas has always been is bringing out the kid in the adult, not asking adults to bring their kids. -- Alan Feldman, MGM Mirage spokesman
973. Home is where the worries of the outside world meet their timely demise. -Drexel Heritage
974. "He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist." --St. Francis of Assisi
975. "To sin in silence, when one should speak, makes cowards out of men" - JFK?
976. People do what works. --Dr. Phil
977. HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. " An idle mind is the devil's workshop," And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5.. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
978. There are only two kinds of plans: Plans that might work and plans that won't work. Plans don't win wars. The only thing that wins them is the execution. General Wesley Clark.
979. Pressure is one of the biggest drugs of all. --Dominique Miller
980. Don't piss down my my back and tell me its raining. --The outlaw Josey Wales (Visa vis Todd Patterson)
981. Seat belts or body bags. One size fits all. Remember. Or be remembered. --SF MUNI Add
982. True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld~
983. Impress your friends and amaze your enemies. --Joe Dimaio
984. She believes in me. -Sammy Davis Jr.
985. Life is easier when you don't have too many choices...--Anon
986. "God may have created man before woman but there is always a rough draft before the masterpiece." ~ author unknown
987. "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -Pablo Picasso.
988. Too much of a good thing is wonderful. -Mae West
989. Everyone likes a party, but no one wants to clean. --Keb Mo.
990. No man should get married before 30. By then he should know better. -Alvin Ehrlich
991. Another bus comes along every 10 minutes. --Alvin Ehrlich
992. Never strike a king unless you kill him. -Shakespeare
993. It is much easier to become a father than to be one. ~ Kent Nerburn (Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man)
994. We will improve the human condition in lasting ways by creating innovative technologies that revolutionize the sciences.-Anon
995. We don't think our way into a new life; we live our way into a new kind of thinking. -- Francis Rohr
996. Failure is the greatest teacher. --Charlie Rose
997. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." - Samuel Butler
998. True friends are like diamonds precious but rare . False friends are like leaves found everywhere.
999. Change is a challenge to the adventurous, an opportunity to the alert, a threat to the insecure.
1000. There is no straight line to a dream.~ Jack Welch
1001. "I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything. "I will try" has performed miracles.~ George P. Burnham
1002. The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.~ Euripides
1003. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. You may enjoy doing it so much that you went to do it again. ~ Ross Perot
1004. The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. - Michael Gerber
1005. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ~ Henry Ford
1006. Be as an cup, and the universe flows into you. Be as an arrow, and the universe retreats from you.~ Zen Proverb
1007. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
1008. Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.~ G. Weatherly
1009. The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain--he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better tomaster one mountain than a thousand foothills. ~ William Arthur Ward
1010. Be as upbeat as you can be. The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude. ~ John DePasquale
1011. The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things.
1012. He is the greatest leader who gets the people to do the greatest things. - Ronald Reagan
1013. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from the shore.~ Dale Carnegie
1014. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill
1015. The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
1016. The only thing more dangerous than the line being crossed is the cop who will cross it.--Anon
1017. Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.--Anon
1018. There is none so blind as those who will not see.--Moody Blues
1019. "Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why its dark"--Anon
1020. "Geeking" is for those who always try to imagine how technology might make life better than it is today. Personally it brings me great joy! --Anon
1021. Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults. --Benjamin Franklin
1022. The greatest gift that man can give anyone is freedom from fear. Kathryn Hepburn.
1023. Moderate your desire of victory over your enemy, and be pleased with the one over yourself.--Benjamin Franklin
1024. Why is it the people who need the most help won't take it. --A river runs through it.
1025. Haste makes waste. --Benjamin Franklin
1026. Little strokes fell great oaks. --Benjamin Franklin
1027. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. --Benjamin Franklin
1028. Desperation is the mother of courage. --Alec Baldwin
1029. Jealousy is based on a low sense of self esteem.--Annie Lenox
1030. I would rather have it said of me that I lived usefully than I died wealthy. Benjamin Franklin
1031. A good example is the best sermon. --Benjamin Franklin
1032. There's more old drunkards than old doctors. God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. --Benjamin Franklin
1033. Education is painful...we mostly learn from our mistakes. --Alec Baldwin
1034. Everything is a test. -Al Pacino
1035. They that will not be counseled, cannot he helped. --Benjamin Franklin
1036. Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. --Benjamin Franklin
1037. For age and want save while you may. No morning sun lasts a whole day. --Benjamin Franklin
1038. When the well's dry we know the worth of water. --Benjamin Franklin
1039. God helps them that help themselves. --Benjamin Franklin
1040. If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.~ Lou Holtz
1041. At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don't care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all. ~ Jock Falkson
1042. Unfortunately, in both journalism and academe, there is a deeply ingrained tendency to think in terms of highly segmented, narrow areas of expertise, which ignores the fact that the real world is not divided up into such neat little beats and that the boundaries between domestic, international, political and technological affairs are all collapsing. --Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree 1999
1043. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.~ Buddha
1044. "The Bible teaches to love your neighbor, and Kama-Sutra explains how." --Anon
1045. All lessons are repeated until learned.--Anon
1046. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.- Albert Camus
1047. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.--John Stewart Mill
1048. "Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Sir Winston Churchill
1049. "Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."-Kahlil Gibran
1050. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
-Rudyard Kipling
1051. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.—Anon
1052. Life is sexually transmitted.—Anon
1053. Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.—Anon
1054. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.—Anon
1055. In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.—Anon
1056. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.—Anon
1057. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1058. "When you close your eyes, what you have in your heart is all that you have. -91 year old Italian woman
1059. Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1060. The ugly may be beautiful, the pretty never.--anon
1061. Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. --Oliver Wendell Holmes.
1062. The first man gets the oyster, the second on gets the shell.
1063. Everything is a tragedy to the man who feels and a comedy to the man who thinks!--Anon
1064. “God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.”--Robin Williams
1065. "Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
1066. There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.--Ella Wheller Wilcox
1067. Listen, and it's amazing what you will hear. --Michael Ducker
1068. "It's a very groovy time."--Austin Powers
1069. A successful display has presence, whether a single object, a simple grouping or a full collection. It stops the eye and captures the imagination. --From Pottery Barn Living Rooms.
1070. He who takes offence where none was intended is a fool ... and he who takes offence where it was intended is usually a fool.--Gordon B Hinckley
1071. For everything we miss we gain something else, and for everything we gain we miss something else. Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson.
1072. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. ~ Jim Rohn
1073. The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains. ~ John Muir
1075. "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." --Ben Franklin
1076. I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. --Anon
1077. Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge. --Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
1078. To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway. -Anon
1079. What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ~ Doris Lessing
1080. Life is too important to take seriously. --anon
1081. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. --Anon
1082. I do not want to die until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.~ Kathe Kollwitz
1083. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -Anon
1084. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. -Anon
1085. The gripping story of Galileo's trial before the Roman Inquisition is one of the defining narratives of Western civilization. The spectacle of the aging astronomer being forced, under the threat of torture, to recant his belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun has seemed to many to mark the moment when the Age of Faith gave way to the Age of Reason and to embody the Catholic Church's enduring hostility to unfettered inquiry and expression. --MICHAEL MASSING
1086. Better to spend a little more than you planned and get what you really want than to spend a little less than you should- and lose everything." --Anon
1087. To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach for another is to risk involvement. To expose your feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To believe is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is free. -Anon
1088. [The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me. --Marlene Dietrich
1089. The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty. --Remy de Gourmont
1090. I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1091. The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. --Virginia Woolf
1092. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. --Albert Einstein
1093. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
1094. Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. -- Roy R. Gilson
1095. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1096. The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. --Havelock Ellis ["Impressions and Comments" (1914)]
1097. Sonya: No! No! When a woman isn't beautiful, people tell her. "You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair. --Anton Chekhov ["Uncle Vanya" (1897)]
1098. If eyes were made for seeing, then Beauty is it's own excuse for being. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
1099. Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. --Sophia Loren
1100. We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
1101. Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
1102. Truly beautiful people are freaks of nature. --Eleanor Roosevelt.
1103. Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.--Oliver Wendell Holmes
1104. Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. --John Pfeiffer
1105. The best things in life are not free but priceless. --Benjamin Lichtenberg
1106. Life is the greatest bargain—we get it for nothing. --Yiddish proverb
1107. Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. --Stephen Covey
1108. Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
1109. In this culture money is everything. Money is God. Money is our religion and it determines everything we do. Marlon Brando
1110. Every man dies, not every man really lives. Mel Gibson.
1111. One passion at a time. --ChiChing
1112. ... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. --Pearl S. Buck
1113. All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. --J.R.R. Tolkein
1114. It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. --Charles Kuralt
1115. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. --Henri Bergson
1116. We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. --Anais Nin
1117. "Art is an idea which has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which the expression is made possible........Design is the foundation of all the arts. " -Paul Rand
1118. Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. --Apple Computers.
1119. "I'm a total Einsteinian with respect to the ultimate goal of science. Physicists should be able to predict all the parameters of nature, they're not adjustable." --Dr. David Gross, director of the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, Calif.
1120. I would rather change the world than get credit for changing the world. -Michael Butler
1121. Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.--Napoleon Bonaparte
1122. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Henry David Thoreau
1123. He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known far and wide as a smart-ass --Preston's Postulate
1124. To be creative, relax and let your mind go to work, otherwise the result is either a copy of something you did before or reads like an army manual. -Kenneth H. Gordon, Jr.
1125. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. -Basho
1126. Life is tying things to see if they work. -Ray Bradbury
1127. One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. -G. K. Chesterton
1128. The creation of thousand forests is in one acorn. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
1129. In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art. - E. M. Forster
1130. What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. - Dean William R. Inge
1131. You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. - Steve Jobs
1132. A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. -Nikos Kazantzakis
1133. An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. - Dr. Edwin Land
1134. The obvious is always least understood. - Prince Metternich
1135. Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Aphorisms)
1136. Doodling is the brooding of the mind. - Saul Steinberg
1137. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. - Publilius Syrus
1138. The art of creation is older than the art of killing. - Andrei Voznesensky
1139. Every really new idea looks crazy at first. - Alfred North Whitehead
1140. And it the end...the love you take is equal to the love you make. -The Beatles (The End)
1141. Goals are dreams with deadlines. -Diana Scharf Hunt
1142. If you can¹t make a mistake, you can¹t make anything. -Marva Collins
1143. If an idea is good it will survive defeat. It may even survive victory. -Steven Vincent Benet
1144. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one we have. -Alain
1145. Change cannot be avoided...Change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity. -Keshavan Nair
1146. Imagination is our strongest tool--the ability to see ordinary things in new ways. -Keith Herrmann
1147. To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. -Rosabeth Moss Kanter
1148. The impossible is often the untried. -Jim Goodwin
1149. An idea is salvation by imagination. -Frank Lloyd Wright
1150. When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. -Leo Burnett
1151. One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. -Henry Miller
1152. It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overleap them. -Metternich
1153. The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. -Will Rogers
1154. Success comes from taking the hand you were dealt and using it to the very best of your ability. -Ty Boyd
1155. If you have a skeleton in your closet, take it out and dance with it. -Carolyn MacKenzie
1156. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. --Anon
1157. The best way to predict the future...is to create it. --Anon
1158. You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. --Anon
1159. A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension. --Anon
1160. The Essence of Imagination - What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Imagination is having the vision to see what is just below the surface; to picture that which is essential, but invisible to the eye. --Anon
1161. With each degree of separation comes a degree of uncertainty. -Ban Company
1162. Everybody asks why I started at the end and worked back to the beginning and worked back to the beginning. The reason is simple; I could not understand the beginning until I reached the end. --White Oleander
1163. Not to know what happened before you were born is to be forever a child. --The Emperors Club
1164. Willful ignorance is intolerable.--The Emperors Club
1165. Stereotypes always have a grain of truth to them. --Kirk Varnedoe
1166. A man's character is his fate (or destiny). --The Emperors Club
1167. The end depends upon the beginning. --The Emperors Club
1168. It is the kind of house you would like to wake up in on Christmas morning. --Michael Douglas (Wonderboys)
1169. If something might work I'll try it. --James Watson (founder of D.N.A.)
1170. It is not who you know, it's who knows you. -Bill Barum
1171. Nothing is impossible, just mathematically improbable. --Sean Connery
1172. I would have liked to know you as an innocent child. --Big Audio Dynamite
1173. "what's most expensive is that which does not work" --Anon
1174. So forever in the future, shall I battle as of yore. Dying to be born a fighter, but to die again once more. - George Patton
1175. I find it kind of funny; I find it kind of sad; the dreams in which I am dying are the best I've ever had. -Tears for Fears
1176. The truest definition of Luxury? When you would rather escape to your life, than from it. --2004 Lexus LS 430 Brochure.
1177. Every night I prey that people with money will acquire taste; then I pray that people with taste will acquire money. Unfortunately they don't go hand in hand. -Bill Barum
1178. When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another...Edward Lorenz & Chaos Theory
1179. No matter what things you study, you will always find that those which are good and useful are also graced with beauty. -Baldassare Castiglione (1528)
1180. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. --Johann von Goethe
1181. I have made so many huge mistakes. Nothing surprises me and everything surprises me. -Cher
1182. The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. - Sir Winston Churchill
1183. What luck for rulers that men do not think. - Adolf Hitler
1184. Keep yourself clean and bright for you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw
1185. It is easier to stay out than get out- Mark Twain
1186. Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.- Albert Einstein
1187. Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. -Einstein
1188. I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. -Einstein
1189. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. -Einstein
1190. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryant
1191. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein
1192. You know nothing for sure . . . except the fact that you know nothing for sure. - JFK
1193. My mother taught me a long time ago that it is useless to get into an argument with an unarmed opponent. -anon
1193. "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer." --JFK
1194. Take the easy path and your only reward will be that it was easy. Take the difficult path and your rewards will be many.... -Anon
1195. "Fashion companies - the ones that really drive the market- shouldn't work to produce numbers but rather should work to sell dreams, to create products that make you feel good and that are right for the moment in which you live"-Renzo Rosso - Diesel
1196. "Those who are ignoring technology today just because they have a little extra capacity will be left behind those who are rebuilding now in order to be ready for new growth." - Michael Capellas, CIO of MCI, June 18, 2003
1197. "The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves"- Logan Pearsall Smith
1198. He who dares wins. --anon
1199. If nothing sticks to Teflon, how does Teflon stick to the pan? -Anon
1200. "Matters of great concern should be taken lightly, matters of small concern should be taken seriously." -ancient chinese adage
1201. IF I KNEW:
If I knew it would be the last time that I'd see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.
If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more.
If I knew it would be the last time I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise, I would video tape each action and word, so I could play them back day after day.
If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra minute to stop and say "I love you," instead of assuming you would KNOW I do.
If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day, Well I'm sure you'll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away.
For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for an oversight, and we always get a second chance to make everything just right.
There will always be another day to say "I love you," and certainly there's another chance to say our "Anything I can do?"
But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get, I'd like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget.
Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike, And today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight.
So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today? For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day, That you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish.
So hold your loved ones close today, and whisper in their ear, Tell them how much you love them and that you'll always hold them dear.
Take time to say "I'm sorry," "Please forgive me," "Thank you," or "It's okay." And if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today. --Anon
1202. "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1203. "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. -- Jean de La Bruy`ere
1204. "Difficulties are the things that show what men are." --Epictetus
1205. "There is only one failure in life, and that is not to be true to the best one knows"
Canon Frederic W. Farrar
1206. "All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success." Dorthea Brande
1207. Think fast, talk slow. -anon
1208. The waiting is the hardest part. -Tom Petty
1209. A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to slowly be born. --Nadine
1210. If you want to leave a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. -Albert Einstein
1211. There is a big difference between people involved and people committed. -Joe Pearl
1212. Are you willing to endure the pain for the gain? --Anon
1213. The thing about life is that by the time you get old enough to understand what it is all about you die. -Ozzy Ozzborne
1214. Every great architect...must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. --Frank Lloyd Wright
1215. A gem cannot be polished without friction. -Anon
1216. Even when you're good, you're 20 minutes away from returning to 'You suck.' ” — Ray Ratto on coaching in the Bay Area these days.
1217. Never trust anyone who sells on commison. --Anon
1218. Three of a kind makes a trend.
1219. More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision. -Tony Saprono
1220. You get what you ask for in this world. If you ask for nothing you get nothing. -Dr. Phil
1221. Appeasement only makes the Aggressor more Aggressive. --Anon
1222. If music be the food of love...play on. --Anon
1223. The circle is know complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Know I am the master. -Darth Vader
1224. I would rather laugh than cry. --Julie Guthrie
1225. The past is never dead. It is even past. --Faulkner
1226. "There must be a common faith and law for mankind" H.G. Wells (1934)
1227. "The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; & the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy." --Alex Carey (from "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy")
1228. When he first campaigned for the office, he vowed to fix Muni in 100 days; it took considerably more time to get the job done. He said of that initial promise: "It was not a lie. It was not a lie at all. I just didn't know what the hell I was talking about, which is the case for most politicians when they're running for office.'' --Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Staff Writer (Mayor Willie Brown's farewell speech)
1229. With nearly 40 years in public office I learned to never assume that someone is your permanent enemy. I always operated on the theory that you may not vote with me today but you may tomorrow, so I'm going to leave you with a sufficient amount of dignity. --Mayor Willie Brown. Farewell speech
1230. Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. --Willian Saroyan.
1231. "Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough." --Willian Saroyan. 1908-1981
1232. "Wisdom begins in wonder" -- Socrates
1233. "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." -- Confucius
1234. "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." -- Mahfouz Naguib
1235. "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." --Thomas Jefferson
1236. "Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom." --Anonymous
1237. "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." --Walter J. Lippmann
1238. "When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world."
Author:Harold Kushner
1239. "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
Author:The Dalai Lama
1240. "The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." --William Wordsworth
1241. "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. --Aristotle
1242. "If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path." --Buddhist saying
1243. "It is our special duty, that if anyone needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power." --Cicero
1244. Only those who dare, truly live."--Ruth Freedman
1245. "I quote others only the better to express myself." --Michel de Montaigne
1246. Let's suppose you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $ 1,440 with one condition - Whatever part of the $1,440 you had failed to use during the day would be erased from your account and no balance carried over.....
What would you do? Of course you'd draw out every cent, everyday and use it to your best advantage....
Well, you have such a bank and its name is TIME. Every morning the bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. It writes off forever whatever portion you failed to invest to a good purpose.....INVEST WISELY! -Unknown
1247. "In the time of your life...live." --Saroyan
1248. Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure. --Anon
1249. I’ve always been fascinated by the user interaction the Internet allows. --Mick Jagger
1250. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.-Mark Twain
1251. There are no such things as excuses. There are reasons that why a particular decision was reached, and why that decision was not a good one. There is a discernible path that can be followed to find the reasons why a failure occurred. There are no excuses, only wrong decisions. ~ Andy Hutchison
1252. "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." --Anon
1253. The trick to being a star is having the talent to handle one's talent. -Ed Bradley
1254. "What do you feed an 800 pound gorilla?" Answer: Anything he wants. -Anon
1255. When somebody shows you who they are believe them. -Bob Fetterman (from Chris Rea)
1256. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln
1257. I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless. But not men. --Don Vito Corleone (The Godfather)
1258. A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. Don Vito Corleone (The Godfather)
1259. You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. -Chuck Carlson
1260. "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." -Nietzsche
1261. 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 Hetcher
1262. The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision. ~ Helen Keller
1263. "Good design is a timeless concept, exemplified best by an object that is soundly manufactured and beautiful, works efficiently for its purposes, and suggests ideas that transcend its form and function." - Paola Antonelli, Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, 1997.
1264. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. -Anon
1265. The computer is a bicycle for the mind. --Steve Jobs
1266. No. I said I think that's the remedy. Whether the patient will swallow the medicine is another question.--Steve Jobs
1267. No human male is entirely happy unless he is engaged in some activity that he shouldn't be. If he's lucky, it's legal. --Al Hillix
1268. The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.--Anon
1269. With raising children, from age one through five, they must understand that no means no. -Gigi Lek
1270. I know she is sweet. You can not live on chocolate alone. -Gigi Lek
1272. Quod me nutrit. me destruit. (That which nourishes me also destroys me.) --Latin Proverb.
1273. Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. --Napoleon Hill
1274. "It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes totally wrong." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919, Poet (Brad Ellman)
1275. As with anyone who sees the future, you might start out listening with a little smile on your face, but in the end it's awfully hard not to pay attention. -Nancy Bushkin, director of corporate communications for Atari referring to Bruno Bonnell
1276. If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would he this: "Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." --Ann Landers
1277. Surely no tool in history has been so controversial as the computer. Never before have so many forgotten that a tool by itself has very little intrinsic value. A chisel in the hands of a master craftsman will result in awe-inspiring works of art, while the same tool in the hands of an accountant will probably result in a trip to the hospital to stitch up the wound. Email typed on a Macintosh is no better or worse than the same email typed on a Windows computer. For many, Windows is a good tool. It enables them to do what they want to do. For others, the Macintosh is a good tool, letting them accomplish the things they wish to accomplish. One platform is not better than the other, they are as different as the people who use them. -- Amy Percival
1278. ''Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer -- that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.'' --Steve Jobs, Apple's C.E.O.
1279. ''The kind of insidious revolutionary quality of the iPod, is that it's so elegant and logical, it becomes part of your life so quickly that you can't remember what it was like beforehand.''--Moby
1280. In a word: simplicity—the transparent ease of use that is the hallmark of Apple's entire product line, including the Music Store. "I'm a complete computer dummy," McLachlan told Time after the event. "If I can use this, anyone can." --Anon
1281. "The Mac world is a walled garden," said BuyMusic.com vice president Liz Brooks. "The PC environment is like the Wild West."
1282. Many a truth is spoken in jest. --Dr. Phil
1283. Existence is a mere imperfection in the perfection of non-existence. --French axiom
1284. Anybody that does well no matter how smart they are, has to have some kind of a plan. A plan has a timeframe with it. --Dr. Phil
1285. This is an eat what you kill world. --Dr. Phil
1286. People who have nothng to hide, hide nothing. --Dr. Phil
1287. A good photographer is a good storyteller. A picture is worth a thousand words. --Larry King
1288. Humor is just common sense dancing. --Clive James
1289. You don't want to be assimilated and patted on the back to quickly. --Norman Mailer.
1290. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. --Bette Davis
1291. Time dominates experience. We live by watch and calendar. We eagerly trade megahertz for gigahertz. We spend billions of dollars to conceal time's bodily influences. We uproariously celebrate particular moments in time even as we quietly despair of its passage. --Brian Greene
1292. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow will die. -Dave Mathews
1293. "The desire to explore and understand is part of our character and that quest has brought tangible benefits that have improved our lives in countless ways. --George W. Bush on future space exploration
1294. I am a switcher who now understands. I used to be so concerned about having Windows and now I can't get enough Mac. It's not just a computer to me, it is a religion. Mac World is a High Holiday and Steve Jobs is God. Maybe I'm a little over dramatic, but lets face the facts, Windows users don't care and have the support that Mac users have and that is what the "Cult" is all about. All praise mighty Steve fro ever and ever. Amen.--Tuju Crue (Jan 2, 2004)
1295. The purpose of life is a life of purpose. --Robert Burns
1296. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. --Rodin
1297. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eight. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity. ~ Harvey Ullman
1298. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong
1299. "The softest pillow is a clear conscience" --Nandan Nilekani
1300. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. -Thomas Edison
1301. Education consists of example and love--nothing else. ~ Heinrich Pestalozzi
1302. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein
1303. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -Albert Einstein
1304. If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -Albert Einstein
1305. I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. -Albert Einstein
1306. The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. -Albert Einstein
1307. You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.-Frank Crane
1308. When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouths. -Billy- age 4
1309. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! ~ Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
1310. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. -Anon
1311. It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. -Anon
1312. The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. -Anon
1313. False economy: an action which saves money at the beginning but which, over a longer period of time, results in more money being wasted than being saved.
1314. Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. ~ Elbert Hubbard
1315. What we do in life echoes in eternity. -Anon
1316. "Experience is the one thing you can't get for nothing." - Oscar Wilde
1317. This is history in the making. We will never be this innocent, or this ignorant, again. " --Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo., leader of the Cassini imaging team, is wildly enthusiastic about the Titan image.
1318. Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else. ~ Brian Tracey
1319. Be thankful for what you have you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. ~ Oprah Winfrey
1320. Term: Being able to disagree without being disagreable.
1321. I don't want God to be on my side. I wan't to be on God's side. -Abraham Lincoln
1322. It's easier to catch a falling star than to find a beautiful woman who's heart is true. --John Dunn (visa vis Dan Rather)
1323. Should we stay together for the children? Children would rather be from a broken home than live in one. --Dr. Phil
1324. There are at least two ways to lie. One is by making an active, overt misrepresentation: to say I wasn't somewhere when I was, or I did not do something when you did. That's one thing where you just blatantly say something that is not true. The second way you can lie is by omission: You just fail to tell somebody something that you know dam well would be material to them. It's called lying by omission. -Dr. Phil
1325. Being famous is like having big breasts. Everybody looks at you when you walk in the room. -Chris Rock
1326. There are no mistakes, only lessons. -Anon
1327. Learn by doing. --Frank Lloyd Wright
1328. The difference between a dream and a goal is the timeline and a realistic action play. -Dr. Phil
1329. In the end all meaning accrues in duration. The things we are all proudest of...the work we have done...the relationships we have, occur in duration. It's the things we have given our best attention to. -Ken Burns
1330. Time flies when you are having fun. -David Bowie
1331. Excuses don't explain and explanations don't excuse. So I am not here to offer any today. -Kwame Jackson
1332. We flow to our strength. -Dr. Phil
1333. 50% of the solution to any problem lies in defining it. -Dr. Phil
1334. It's not how far you fall; it is how high you bounce. -Tony Bachera
1335. At the end of the day our attention is all we have. -Ken Burns
1336. The only thing that is really new is the history you don't know. Harry Truman
1337. My dad used to say, "There’s something about that old boy I just can't stand about myself." ...you see in others what you hate about yourself. -Dr. Phil
1338. Successful relationships are not about 50%-50%. They are about 100%-100%. -Dr. Phil
1339. Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend. ~ Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
1340. Wisdom begins in wonder. -Socrates
1341. If man makes it, don't eat it. --Jack Lalanne
1342. The smallest deed is greater than the grandest intention. ~ Patti LaBelle
1343. Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~ John W. Gardner
1344. What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire? ~ Bharati Mukhejee (The Middleman)
1345. Success in life depends on how well you handle plan B. Anybody can handle plan A. --Edie Widder
1346. Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean. –Aristotle “Nichomachean Ethics”
1347. Predictabilty has a high value. -Shai Agassi
1348. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott
1349. If standard of living is our major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves. ~ Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
1350. Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible. ~ Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
1351. Apple as a company 'isn't about making money, it's about making nice things,' he said. 'We make money to support our desire to make nice things, ...success as a designer is about, 'focus and caring.' -Jonathan Ive
1352. "It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy."
1353. Microsoft strives for domination; Apple strives for innovation. --Anon
1354. "The things that really matter are Honor, Courage and Virtue. Power and Money don't really matter so much. If you find true love...it lasts forever... –Robert Duvall (in Secondhand Lions Movie sent in by Chris Rea.)
1355. A pretty face don't mean a pretty heart. -Robert Palmer
1356. The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now. ~ Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
1357. Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember--the only taste of success some people haveis when they take a bite out of you.~ Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes
1358. There is a space between any stimulus and the response to it. The key to our growth and happiness is how we use that space. --Stephen Covey
1359. Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away. ~ H. Jackson Brown (Life's Little Instruction Book)
1360. Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night. ~ Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
1361. Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear. ~ U. S. Anderson
1362. We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
1363. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. --Abe Lincold 1860 (visa vis Chris Reeve)
1364. Do not read good books--life is too short for that--read only the best. ~ Ernest Dimnet
1365. True self-respect, being very different from false pride, leads inevitably to respecting others. ~ Virginia Moore (Virginia is a State of Mind)
1366. I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change. ~ Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine, Sept. 16, 20
1367. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company. ~ Andre Gide (Pretexts)
1368. Children are not very good at listening to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them. --James Baldwin
1369. Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning. ~ Benjamin Franklin
1370. This is why Apple doesn’t fear Dell and doesn’t fear Microsoft. Apple gets it. Apple cares about what matters. For those who understand that, using Microsoft Windows on a Dell computer is painful, not productive. Apple’s “wholistic” design of software and hardware and style and functionality makes all the difference in the world. - Posted on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 By Jack D. Miller
1371. Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. ~ Erich Fromm (Man for Himself An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics)
1372. True elegance is timeless. -Longines
1373. Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. ~ Fulton J. Sheen
1374. True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after. ~ Edwin H. Land
1375. People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. What can we call our own except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance left in my favor. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (in Conversations with Goethe, by Eckermann)
1376. "Flying home Saturday...poor in money but rich in memories and good times..." --Chris Rea (on coming back to the US after his trip to Europe.)
1377. I have a few "Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games." - Ernest Hemingway
1378. "Straights are for fast cars. Turns are for fast drivers." – anonymous
1379. "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti
1380. Matters of great concern should be taken lightly, matters of small concern should be taken seriously." -ancient Chinese adage
1381. You get younger as you get older. -Barbra Ehrlich
1382. Ignorance is curable, stupidity is terminal. -Anon
1383. The best stuff I have ever found has been by surprise. -Brad Pitt
1384. If a person can execute on his promises, then he's a winner. --SAP's Henning Kagermann
1385. Your most brilliant ideas come in a flash, but the flash comes only after a lot of hard work. Nobody gets a big idea when he is not relaxed and nobody gets a big idea when he is relaxed all the time. ~ Edward Blakeslee
1386. We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. ~ Ralph Waldo Eme
1387. The only way you can hurt your body is if you don't use it. --Jack Lalanne
1388. "I'll make the living, and you make the living worth while." -Dr. Phil on a stay at home wife or mother.
1389. I don't take the photograph. The photograph takes me. --Henri Cartier-Bresson
1390. Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together. ~ John A. Morrison
1391. Kindness is the only investment that never fails. --Fortune Cookie
1392. Fashion has become a spectator sport. --Tom Ford
1393. The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with fact is a fool. ~ Frank A Garbutt
1394. Nothing worth knowing can be taught. --Henri Cartier-Bresson (On Photography)
1395. Anybody sensitive is an artist.--Henri Cartier-Bresson
1396. Everything is interesting. --Henri Cartier-Bresson
1397. Many Receive advice. Only the wise profit from it. -Anon
1398. Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
1399. If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching. ~ Lord Chesterfield
1400. Character development is the great, if not the sole, aim of education. ~ O'Shea
1401. Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who rejected you, and braced themselves against you, or disputed the passage with you? ~ Walt Whitman
1402. "If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men," Govenor Schwarzenegger
1403. The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts and we grow happier as we grow older. ~ William Lyon Phelps
1404. Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. ~ Edward Thorndike
1405. He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both. ~ Francis Bacon
1406. "Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share does provide us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society." - Roger Ebert
1407. You remember the quality long after you forget the price of anything, and the quality has got to be first. --Ed Sabol
1408. It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. ~ Mary O'Connor
1409. Life is what you do while you are waiting to die. -Donald Trump
1410. It's attitude, not aptitude, that determines altitude. -Leo J. Feeney
1411. I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.~ Dodie Smith
1412. Beauty I have learned from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world. ~ Frederick Ward Kates
1413. Be careful if someone you know tries to do something for free...it usually ends up costing three times as much as would have it you just paid for it. --Carlo Ginnochio May 5, 2004
1414. "All depression has it's roots in self pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously." - Tom Robbins
1415. The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ~ Confucius
1416. From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the winning, But laughter and the love of friends. ~ Hilaire Belloc ("Dedicatory Ode")
1417. Life is not measured by the breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away. ~ Unknown
1418. Success is the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal. ~ Anna Pavlova
1419. Democracy needs more free speech, for even the speech of foolish people is valuable if it serves to guarantee the right of the wise to talk. ~ David Cushman Coyle
1420. We have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here. ~ Mildred D. Taylor
1421. The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." Douglas Adams
1422. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.~ Pat Riley
1423. All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness. ~ Han Suyin
1424. There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. ~ Richard Bach
1425. My memory serves me far to well. --George Michael
1426. Great spirits always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
1427. Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean. - Aristotle “Nichomachean Ethics”
1428. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.~ Buddha
1429. A lot of people say, 'How do you do so many deals?' The truth is, if you don't have efficiency—you need all the other attributes, the drive, the this, the that—but if you're not an efficient person—I know people with 200 IQs, but they're f--king scatterbrains when it comes to efficiency—if you're not an efficient person—if you're not efficient both in time and in every other category, you can only do so much. --Donald Trump
1430. Everything he had to say deserves to be heard. Orrin Keepnews on Thelonius Monk
1431. An elephant can be tethered by a thread--if he believes he is captive. If we believe we are chained by habit or anxiety, we are in bondage. ~ John H. Crowe
1432. Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. ~ Harold B. Melchart
1434. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind. ~ Samuel Smiles
1435. Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~ Guillaume Apollinaire
1436. Architecture is frozen music. -Johann Wolfgang Goethe [Jake's Favorite]
1437. Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves. ~ John Stevenson
1438. Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him. ~ Virginia Satir (Peoplemaking)
1439. Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it--almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it. ~ Peace Pilgrim
1440. Leadership is not given; it is taken. -Itamar Rabinovich
1441. A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, an mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them. ~ D. O. Glynn
1442. What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man [or woman] and the life he [or she] leads?~ Albert Camus
1443. "Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Sallust
1444. "Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes’ or Porsche’s in the automobile market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?" –– Steve Jobs
1445. Kline & Co see Apple's success in establishing its brand as a living example of how strong branding can drive growth: "Strong brands turn need into desire," the report says, adding, "with strong brands, customers don't just want to buy from you – they want to have a relationship with you.
1446. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. ~ John Nuveen
1447. If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love. ~ Mother Teresa
1448. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Conduct of Life) [Jake's Favorite]
1449. A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.~ Norman Cousins
1450. If you don't go first class, your heirs will. -Evelyn Baker visa vis Bill Barham
1451. Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is the truth. –Sir Isaac Newton
1452. "I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
1453. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. ~ Antonio Porchi
1454. Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball. ~ Mitzi Chandler
1455. The future's uncertain and the end is always near. -The Doors
1456. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. ~ Buddha [Jake's Favorite]
1457. The present time has one advantage over every other--it is our own. ~ Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon)
1458. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt [Jake's Favorite]
1459. The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul. ~ Simone Weil (Selected Essays 1934-1943)
1460. There is nothing more wonderful for a man than to know as he aproaches his own doorstep that someone on the other side of that door is listening for the sound of his footsteps. --Clark Gable (visa vis Ronald Reagan) [Jake's Favorite: I love this quote]
1461. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it, If you can dream it, you can become it. ~ William Arthur Ward
1462. Tell me a fact and I will learn. Tell me a truth and I will believe. But Tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever. --EdSabol
1463. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I would ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. ~ Rachel Carson
1464. I was once afraid of people saying, "Who does she think she is?" Now I have the courage to stand and say, "This is who I am." ~ Oprah Winfrey
1465. The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life. ~ Jim Rohn
1466. The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. ~ Epicurus
