Thursday, December 30, 2010

Bonus quotes for the New Year

Perhaps the best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
~ Dean Acheson

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
~ John Quincy Adams

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~ Aristotle

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

accomplishment, hurry, leadership

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
~ Thomas Edison (1847-1931) U.S. inventor

Hurry! I never hurry. I have no time to hurry.
~ Igor Stravinsky

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
~ Dennis Peer

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Some quotes for Christmas

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
~ Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )

The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong.
~ Sir Colin Marshall

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
~ Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Monday, December 13, 2010

Standards, Worrying, Freedom

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
~ Jeph Jacques

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
~ Winston Churchill

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Scarcity, Senility, Knowledge vs Emotion

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
~ Goethe

Don't worry about senility - when it hits you, you won't know it.
~ Bill Cosby

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
~ Bertrand Russell