this is what history teaches. history teaches.

gertrude stein

don't compare yourself with others - it will only make you bitter or vain.

Isn't it funny how the pirates were always going around searching for hidden treasure, when the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating?

When you get to the end of your life, are you going to look back and regret you didn't spend more time at work?...

The whole is the sum of the parts, so be a good part.

Nate McConnell

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Greek proverb

"Kill them all. God will know His own."

Simon de Montfort, on how his crusaders could separate the Cathar heretics from the good Catholics...

Setting a goal is not the main thing.
It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Tom Landry (1924-2000)

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American Author (1904-2001)

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best--that is inspiration.

Robert Bresson
(1901-1999)
Filmmaker

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Chinese proverb

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Smile. It makes people wonder what you are up to.

- Unknown

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Hunter S. Thompson

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

-Dune

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Miller

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

Martha Stewart

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Carl W. Buechner

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Cicero

without bad there is no good

You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There’s more of a chance then that they’ll survive. That is perhaps one of the greatest secrets of our life.

Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906-1975)
Composer

I love all waste/And solitary places; where we taste/The pleasure of believing what we see/Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.


Percy Bysshe Shelley
from Julian and Maddalo

You get what you measure. (my stats prof. Freaky genius)

Choose your staff with purpose. What kind of ego do you have if your employees are little clones of yourself? You should be fired. (Another teacher I had in HRM)

Any philosophy that can fit on a fortune cookie paper must be true. (I read this one from a fortune cookie. It blew my mind. I've never touched a fortune cookie since.)

Dig them holes deep, boys, you'll be living in them. (my section commander in the army)

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish
to scatter joy and not pain around us.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

Edwin Markham

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Agnes DeMille

The stone we write our rules in.....is often the same one we slam our heads against


tecoyah

That's a great one, tecoyah. Thanks!

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

"Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

amonkie, that latest one you posted is so well stated.
new to me but unforgettable.
thanks!

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Claude Bernard
(1813-1878)

In honor of April Fool's Day, I thought I'd share some of my favorite Mark Twain quotes.


* A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

* Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

* Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

* Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

* Don't let schooling interfere with your education. Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

* Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

* Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

* I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

* If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.

* Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

great set of statements here, warrrreagl. thanks!

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

People change and forget to tell each other.

~Lillian Hellman

Time wears away error and polishes truth.

~Gaston Pierre Marc, Duc de Levis, writer (1764-1830)

"Boredom is the shriek of unused capacities."
----
Saul Bellow