QOTD May 11 2017
Thursday, May 11th, 2017Bernard M. Baruch: “Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.”
Bernard M. Baruch: “Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: “One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.”
Og Mandino: “Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.”
Benjamin Disraeli: “In a progressive country change is constant; …change… is inevitable.”
W. S. Gilbert: “If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you’re bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven’t a chance.”
J. K. Rowling: “Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”
Sir Thomas Browne: “There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.”
Barry Commoner: “Nothing ever goes away.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.”
Jorge Luis Borges: “Life itself is a quotation.”
Alan Saporta: “The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.”
Mario Puzo: “Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
Margaret Fuller: “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”
Maureen Dowd: “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”
Dan Millman: “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”
Cicero: “When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld: “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
Mary Field Belenky: “Really listening and suspending one’s own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms… This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.”
Emily Dickinson: “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
Helen Keller: “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.”