QOTD March 31 2019
Sunday, March 31st, 2019Joe E. Lewis: “You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.”
Joe E. Lewis: “You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.”
Martha Beck: “The power to bring me out of solitude – or to push me back into it – had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.”
Carl Schurz: “If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.”
Eric Schmidt: “We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world’s information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It’s a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.”
The Dhammapada: “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”
Martha Graham: “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
Arthur Hays Sulzberger: “I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”
Hyman Rickover: “Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.”
Charles W. Eliot: “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”
Josh Billings: “Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.”
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “Deal with the consequences of your actions, ’cause life ain’t no video game.”
Randy Pausch: “Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.”
Albert Camus: “You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
Irish Proverb: “Praise youth and it will prosper.”
Juvenal: “Be gentle with the young.”
Ecclesiasticus: “Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.”
Robert Lynd: “There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”
Jimmy Wales: “Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.”