Is trivia reality?

Plans are useless, planning is essential.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
~ Robert Heinlein

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
~ Philip K. Dick

Springtime

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
~ Christopher Morley (American writer and editor 1890-1957)

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
~ Doug Larson

A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for a king.
~ Emily Dickinson

Seekers

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~ Albert Einstein

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
~ Henry David Thoreau

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~ George Moore

Politics, understanding and... evolution?

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
~ Ronald Reagan

Understanding is a three-edged sword : your side, my side, and the truth in between.
~ Ambassador Kosh, "Babylon 5"

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Character

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
~ Addison Walker

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
~ Sam Ewig

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
~ Vince Lombardi

Science, Reading and Knowledge

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."

~ Jules Verne

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

~ John Locke

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."

~ Mark Twain

Fun Ones

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

~ Doug Larson

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

~ Mark Twain

Wisdom and foolishness

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

~ Winston Churchill

"We are always ready~even eager~to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Education and Growth

"Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much part of the process as the experiments that work."

~ C. Carter-Scott

 

"The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge."

~ John Ruskin

 

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

~ Henry Ward Beecher

 

Be More

"Great thoughts come from the heart."

~ François de La Rochefoucauld

 

"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."

~ Winston Churchill

 

 

Your actions build your future

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

~ R. D. Laing

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

~ Leonard I. Sweet

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Don't worry

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

~ Albert Einstein

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.

~ Emo Philips

Laugh

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

~ Bob Hope quotes (English born American Actor and Comedian, 1903-2003)

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

~ Jimmy Buffett

Security and certainty

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

~ Helen Keller

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

~ George Bernard Shaw

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

~ Albert Einstein

Christmas

If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

~Yeshua Cristos, as reported by John, son of Zebedee

 

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.

 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

~Luke, the Historian in the account he recorded for his friend Theophilus, Chapter 2: 1-7

 

Art vs Science

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers
~ Pablo Picasso

Common Sense and Wisdom

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

~ Bob Hope

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

~ W.C. Fields

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Job 28:28

~Psalm 111:10

~ Proverbs 1:7

~ Proverbs 9:10

~ Proverbs 15:33

~ Isaiah 33:6

~ Micah 6:9

of knowledge and learning

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

~ Plato

"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?"

~ Cicero

movie quote

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

George Lucas, Senator Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Election Day

"Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

-- John Quincy Adams