51. Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed. —Murial Rukeyser, Poet (1913-1980)
52. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? —Stephen Levine
53. I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —Pablo Picasso
54. If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? —Steven Wright, comedian, 1994.
55. It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. —James Ullman [Jake's Favorite: This is one of the most profound truisms I have ever come across]
56. Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. —Jimmy Buffet
57. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success. —Winston Churchill
58. Information is the currency of democracy. —Thomas Jefferson
59. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. —W. Feather
60. The first and the best victory is to conquer self. —Plato
61. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. —Mother Teresa
62. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. —Malcon Forbes[Jake's Favorite: Malcom was another quote collector and seeker of wisdom]
63. All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. —Greg Arnold
64. He who speaks does not know. He who knows does not speak. —Lao-Tzu (Tao Te Ching)
65. The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books—a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. —Albert Einstein [Jake's Favorite: With all due respect to the great master–I disagree. I actually think the human mind is capable of grasping the Universe...in large part due to all that Einstein contributed to scientific knowledge. I love this qoute so much]
66. There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. —Ben Zander [Jake's Favorite]
67. The real secret of success is enthusiasm. —Walter Chrysler
68. There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all. —Anon
69. The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven. —Og Mandino
70. He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers. —Proverb
71. Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." -Lewis Carroll
72. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. —Socrates (Plato's Apology)
73. These are the good old days. —Carly Simon (Anticipation)
74. When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. —Japanese Proverb
75. There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. —Art Turock
76. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. —Buddha
77. It is better to believe than to disbelieve, in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility. —Albert Einstein
78. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. —Abraham Lincoln
79. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a big ship. —BenjaminFranklin
80. Insight is a shift in boundaries. —Neil Larson
81. Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usuallyit's reading his own handwriting. —Norman Collie
82. There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. —Maya Angelou
83. You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. —Navajo Proverb
84. When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. —Anon [Jake's Favorite]
85. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. —Albert Einstein
86. Sarcasm is the recourse of a weak mind. —Anon
87. Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. —Al Bernstein
88. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. —Boris Yeltsin
89. If you think that you are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. —Anita Koddick
90. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. —Edith Sitwell
91. I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate. —George Burns
92. If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music. —Albert Einstein (What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.)
93. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. —Aeschylus
94. If you are able to state a problem, it can be solved. —Edwin H. Land, American inventor (of the Polaroid Camera)
95. Persistence is to the character of man what carbon is to steel. —Napoleon Hill
96. ...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition... —Amelia Barr
97. Would you like me to give you a formula for...success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side. —Thomas Watson
98. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. —Muriel Strode
99. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —W.B.Yeats
100. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. —Og Mandino
101. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. —Vidal Sassoon
102. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. —Babe Ruth
103. Keep in mind that if the foundation is weak, the rest of the structure will be affected accordingly. —Anon
104. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. —Confucius
105. There is something about the beginning of spring that almost forces us to look up, get out, and remember that we are part of nature. —Anon
106. Don't focus on the failure. Focus on what you can learn from it. —Tony Robbins
107. When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. —Thomas Edison
108. There is probably no greater power than the power to follow through on what you say you want to do. —Anonymous
109. Information is not knowledge. —Albert Einstein
110. Time is long and life is short; so live it!" —Matt Gillam
111. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. —James Russell Lowell
112. I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. —Louisa May Alcott
113. We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. —Lee Iococca
114. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. —Alexander Smith
115. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
116. Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise. —Phillips Brooks
117. Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. —Nathaniel Emmons
118. Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. —Kahlil Gibran
119. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. —Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
120. Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. —Pearl S. Buck
121. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goals; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. —W. W. Ziege
122. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
123. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. —Hannah More
124. When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. —Buckminster Fuller [Jake's Favorite]
125. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary new material, but the warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. —Carl Jung
126. Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. —Zig Ziglar
127. There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in. —Erma Bombeck
128. It's a race between the lock-makers and the lock-pickers. —Eric Schmidt (Novell chairman referring to the web and hackers)
129. So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we had the key. —The Eagles (Already Gone)
130. Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. —Ralph Charell
131. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. —Viktor Frankl
132. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. —Albert Einstein
133. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap! —Peter McWilliams
134. Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. —Tennessee Williams
135. The best time to handle a problem is before it ever comes up. —Anthony Robbins
136. Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others." —Francis Bacon
137. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. —Carson, Rachel
138. The attitudes of your friends are like a button on an elevator. They will either take you up or they will take you down. —Alexander Lockhart
139. If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination. —Napoleon Hill
140. One forgives to the degree that one loves. —Frangois duc de La Rochefoucauld
141. If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive... — Eleonora Duse, 1859-1924 Italian Actress
142. As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind —Isabelle Holland
143. And yes the reason I love quotes, it gets us back to the way life used to be and should be and we must be reminded as life is becoming very stressful, very busy, families are no longer what they used to be and I love to be reminded to slow down and smell the roses think about where you are going and what you are doing. They truly give life perspective. —Bobbi Fillmore
144. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. —Henri Bergson
145. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. —Sandra Carey
146. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. —Winston Churchill
147. Happiness is expectation management. —David Cox
148. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. —Anon
149. You know you have to go through hell before you can get to Heaven. —Steve Miller
150. Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. —Sydney J. Harris
151. Attitude is the mind's paint brush. It can color any situation. —Alexander Lockhart
152. Every detail is important. Where do you have a meeting? What is the surrounding environment? People who don't think about these things have a harder time in business. It's got to be the right place. It's got to be the right color. It's got to be the right choice. Everything has to be strategized. You have to know where you're going to come out before you go in. Otherwise, you lose. —Michael Ovitz
153. With a dream in your heart you're never alone. —Dion Warwick (Do you know the way to San Jose)
154. Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. —Albert Einstein
155. Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. —Anon
156. What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? —Bette Greene
157. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
158. The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten. —Seymour Jaron
159. I would not swim three quarters of the way across the river just to decide I could not make it and try to swim back. —Brad Ellman
160. Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function. —John Pfeiffer
161. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. —Dwight Eisenhower
162. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper. —Anon
163. Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light. —Jennie Jerome Churchill
164. There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants, more than anything else, to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are-and have always been. —Joseph Brooks
165. I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. —Eugene Forsey
166. The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult. —Marquise du Deffand
167. The truth of the matter is that a rude person with a mobile phone in their hand is a rude person with a mobile phone in their hand. —Jeffrey Nelson
168. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. —Robert Schuller
169. A positive attitude won't let you do anything. But it will let you do everything better than a negative attitude will. —Zig Ziglar
170. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. —Abraham Lincoln
171. A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. —English Proverb
172. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. —Albert Einstein
173. I haven't failed, I've found ten thousand ways that don't work. —Albert Einstein
174. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. —Alphonse Kerr
175. Keep company with those who make your better. —English Saying
176. Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. —Richard E. Byrd
177. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. —Abraham Lincoln
178. 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
179. ...students must practice writing regularly if they are to become good writers. We counsel continual revision and show students how to do it. We believe in the truth behind the remark of a French writer that he never finished a piece of writing; when he faced a deadline, he abandoned his work to the printer, but he could always revise it some more if he had the time. —Richard Marius, and Harvey S. Wiener. The McGraw-Hill College Handbook. Second Edition.
180. Minds are like parachutes—they only function when open. —Thomas Dewa [Jake's Favorite: Profoundly True!!!]
181. He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. —Confucius
182 You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. —Smeltzer, Ruth
183. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. —Benjamin Franklin
184. If you can do it; it ain't bragging. —Dizzy Dean (Baseball Player)
185. The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going. —David Jordan
186. "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." —Muhammad Ali
187. Worry is like a rocking chair—it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. —Dorothy Galyean [Jake's Favorite]
188. There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. —Josiah Gilbert Holland
189. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars. —Les Brown
190. It all has to make sense: I am not the only one making strategic decisions. But you need a strategy that can fit inside one brain, and the buck stops here. I am charged with making sure that every one understands the strategy, and is motivated by it. —Bill Gates
191. The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. —John Foster Dulles
192. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. —Martin Luther King
193. Design is thinking made visual. —Saul Bass [Jake's Favorite: In my opoinion this is the most profound and precise definition of design]
194. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. —Harriet Beecher Stowe
195. Power comes not from knowledge kept, but from knowledge shared. A companies values and reward system should reflect that idea. —Bill Gates
196. Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. —Albert Einstein.
197. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they make them. —George Bernard Shaw
198. I am a great believer in luck, I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it. —Thomas Jefferson
199. Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. —Maya Angelou
200. Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. —William James
201. The best way out of a difficulty is through it. —Anon
202. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. —Derek Bok
203. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say; here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. —Martin Luther King Jr.
204. An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. —Charles Kettering
205. The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. —Anon
206. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving, but does not make any progress. —Alfred A. Montapert
207. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —Pablo Picasso
208. I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten — happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. —Ueland, Brenda
209. We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons... — Alfred E. Newman
210. It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. —Albert Schweitzer
211. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. —Colette
212. Sometimes (when surfing) you reach a point of being so coordinated, so completely balanced, that you feel you can do anything - anything at all. At times like this I find I can run up to the front of the board and stand on the nose when pushing out through a broken wave; I can goof around, put myself in an impossible position and pull out of it, simply because I feel happy. An extra bit of confidence can carry you through, and you can do things that are just about impossible. —Midget Farrelly
213. A positive thinker learns to knock the "t" off the "can't." —Anon
214. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. —Napoleon Hill
215. I used to say that politics was the second oldest profession, and I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first. —Ronald Reagan, one year before he became the president.
216. Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. —Pope John XXIII
217. There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost. —Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
218. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. —George C. Lichtenberg
219. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. —Marilyn Vos Savant
220. What could be more important than your thoughts? asked the Mind, nothing as long as you think with your heart, replied the Soul. —Anon
221. Failure is usually the line of least persistence. —Wilfred Beaver
222. Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. —Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Poet, Dramatist, and Novelist
223. Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. —Schopenhauer, Arthur
224. People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. —Saint Augustine
225. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. —Anon
226. A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
227. What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning. —Proverb
228. He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need to be forgiven. —George Herbert
229. A genius only makes the same mistake once. —Kevin Roberts (Satchi & Satchi add agency CEO)
230. Never think of the consequences of failing, you will always think of a negative results. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts! —Michael Jordan
231. It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it! —Somerset Maugham
232. The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. —Roy L. Smith
233. The fountain of youth is to love your work. I have a passion for what I do. —Sumner Redstone
234. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. —Anon
235. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. —Albert Einstein
236. Good artists copy. Great artists steal. —Pablo Picasso
237. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. —Lauren Bacall
238. One person with courage makes a majority. —Andrew Jackson
239. The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. —Alexander Graham Bell
240. All progress involves risk; you can't steal home with your foot on third. —Anon
241. A good book, you never finish; you read it over and over again. —Carmen Luz Herlihy
242. It is not the critic who counts. The credit belongs to the man who is actually is in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust, sweat and blood. Who at best knows the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly. So that he shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. The greatest risk is not taking one. —Anon
243. The ways are many. The end is one. —James Kahn
244. A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place. —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
245. An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. —Charles Bukowsky
246. If you don't love what you do, going to work is like going to jail every day, and most people spend their lives in jail. —Cindy Ehrlich
247. The moment man first picked up a stone or a branch to use as a tool, he altered irrevocably the balance between him and his environment. . . . While the number of these tools remained small, their effect took a long time to spread and to cause change. But as they increased, so did their effects: the more the tools, the faster the rate of change. [-James Burke, (Connections)]
247.5 Knowledge is the ultimate power tool. —Bill Gates
248. My religion is to do good, and my country is the world. —Anon.
249. There are no accidents. —Miles Davis
250. He, who travels alone, travels furthest. —Proverb
250.5 I have a very special quote to share with you today. On Saturday evening I was at a cocktail party that some close friends parent's were having to celebrate their upcoming wedding. My friend, Melissa Marshall, soon to be Mrs. Melissa Barber was having the party thrown in her honor along with her fiancé, and close pal of mine, Patrick Barber. Melissa's uncle is the famous aerial photographer, Robert Cameron. Mr. Cameron is 89 years young and is famous for his Above books, which include, Above San Francisco, Above Paris, and Above New York.
I was having a fascinating conversation with the old boy about photography as an art form. He told me about an argument he had in 1970 with his contemporary and close friend, Ansel Adams. They were arguing about whether photography was an art form or not. Robert was arguing that it was not. Adams quickly changed Cameron's mind when he responded, "Photography is the greatest invention for recording and communicating, but if someone receives an emotional response from one of my images, then to him it is an art form."
There, you have it! Precious insight between two of the greatest photographers in history. (QOD 10-9-2000)
251. Success should be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. —Anon.
252. The unknown always yields to the those with the will to discover. —Anon
253. The most expensive possession you can have is a closed mind. It will cost you all your life. —Ross Jeffries
254. Warren Buffet was right again. Cash flow, profitability and earnings matter. Launch parties and sock puppets don't. —Michael Dell
255. Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. —Anonymous
256. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. —Mark Twain
257. Blessed is the man with the wisdom of the ages and the heart of a child. –Anonymous
258. Show me a beautiful woman, and I will show you a man who takes her for granted. —Anon
259. You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. —Sam Levenson
260. One person with an belief, is just that; one person with a belief. But when two people share an idea, you have a political movement. —Anon
261. If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation
If there is order in the nation, there will be Peace in the World.
—Chinese Proverb
262. If we found out that we all had five minutes to live, every phone line in the world would be tied up with people calling other people to stumble about how much they love them. So don't wait until we only have five minutes to live—do it now.—Trisha Wright
263. A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. —Joseph Roux (Meditations of a Parish Priest)
264. If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
—Chinese proverb
265. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. —Mark Twain
266. If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight-room house. If a man got possession of all that gold ,-- billions of dollars worth, he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience, or a sense of eternity. —Charles Banning
