Struggles, Minds, Creativity

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

Great mind discuss ideas; Average minds, events; Small minds, people.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
~ Ray Bradbury

Enemies, Others, Fun

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
~ African Proverb

Those who spend their time worrying about what people think of them wouldn't worry if they knew how rarely other people think of them.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The activities that are the easiest, cheapest, and most fun to do--such as singing, playing games, reading, storytelling, and just talking and listening-are also the best for child development.
~ Professor Jerome Singer, Yale University
(...no matter how old you are ~k)

Build the future, Creativity, Silence

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
~ Carl Jung, Psychologist

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
~ Phillips Brooks

Change, no Respect, End of the Rope

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
~ Jane Goodall

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
~ Rodney Dangerfield

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

life

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
~Advice

We are wiser than we know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Risk vs Fear

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one's outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed.
~ Charles Lindbergh

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
~ Thomas Edison

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Trekkies and Wisdom

We're just very proud to honor Dad with this star. A lot of Star Trek fans helped us out with this.

--Chris Doohan, whose father, James Doohan--Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott on the original 60's series--received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. The event was expected to be the final public appearance for the 84-year-old actor, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

--Theodore Roosevelt