:The“the inability to forget is infinitely more devastating than the inability to remember.”
What quote that is. I need to hang this on my fridge so I see it every day.
I wish I could live by this wisdom.
I've heard this put a different way:“the inability to forget is infinitely more devastating than the inability to remember.”
What quote that is. I need to hang this on my fridge so I see it every day.
I wish I could live by this wisdom.
I've heard this put a different way:
"It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's the things you know that aren't true."
And it's very true. Einstein said something to the effect that people could solve a lot of the most pressing, puzzling problems in physics if they had the unfettered senses of the young child.It's at the beginning of The Big Short, I think.
It ain't what you don't know that hurts you.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
And it's very true. Einstein said something to the effect that people could solve a lot of the most pressing, puzzling problems in physics if they had the unfettered senses of the young child.
Here's a collection of quotations I sent out the people I know a few years ago:
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"Conformity killed the cat. Curiosity was framed."
"The Soul of Sweet Delight can never be defiled." - William Blake
"Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you." -
William Blake
"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing." - Lao Tze
"There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or
condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to
make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself." --
Laurell K. Hamilton
Happiness is knowing what you have to do and doing it.
"I was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows, they learned to swim." -
U2, Until The End Of The World
I want to die calm and peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not
kicking and screaming like the passengers of his car.
The next best thing to knowing what to do is knowing when to be
careful
People protest fur more that leather because it is easier to strip fur
coats off women than leather jackets off biker gangs.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. - Blaise Pascal
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown
aside with great force. -Dorothy Parker
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking
what one has to do.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while
they snub contentment. -Doug Larsen
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
-Brother Dave Gardner
Happiness is being married to your best friend.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it
under his feet. -James Oppenheim
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. -Burton Hills
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." -
James Dean
...and the best reason is that I want to.
Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them
first for seven hours, they always come out tender. - WC Fields
Any man who hates children can't be all bad. - WC Fields
The geek shall inherit the earth.
Segal's Law: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two
watches is never sure.
Yogi Berra: "The future ain't what it used to be."
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every
man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance
in the entire population. - Albert Einstein
He who doubts from what he sees will ne'er believe, do what you
please. - William Blake
"If guns were outlawed, only outlaws would have guns." Well, yes,
that's exactly what I'm saying...
"You never know what is enough until you know what is too much." -
William Blake
"When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they
look in the same direction." - Ginger Rogers
"Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream." - Oscar Wilde
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." -- Albert
Einstein
"Progress is not possible without change, and those who cannot change
their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw
"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject
themselves." - Charles Chaplin
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's
unfamiliar territory. - Paul Fix
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown
aside with great force -Dorothy Parker
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
-Kahlil Gibran
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm:
usually because they could not walk. - Nietzsche
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have
nothing whatever to do with it. - W. Somerset Maugham
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our
appetite and make the world seem empty. - Eric Hoffer
Death has proven to be 99% fatal to laboratory animals.
I have never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary
notices I have read with pleasure. - Clarence Darrow
Thingy - Definition: Common technical term for whatever it is that you
can't remember the real name of. Also Known As: thingamabob,
whatchamacallit, doodad, thingamajigger
"Are you a procrastinator?" ..."I don't know, ask me later."
- -
Inscription at the beginning of Chapter Two (Organizing Priorities) of
Renovating Old Houses, 2nd Edition, by George Nash
A New York lawyer busy with the many chores in closing his place for the
winter interrupted his work to say goodbye to his neighbor at a time he
thought appropriate for the farmer's schedule. It turned out, as it
sometimes does with supposedly taciturn denizens of the hill country,
that his neighbor wanted to talk, and after some exchange the lawyer
said, "I'm sorry but I've got to go along. Have a hundred things to do."
"You've got a hundred things to do?"
"Well, perhaps not quite," the New Yorker repied, "but it seems that
many."
"Let me give you a piece of advice," said the Vermonter, "Do 'em one at
a time."
- Allen R. Foley, What The Old-Timer Said
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Do you really think I care what you eat or what you wear...
Better to rule in Heaven than serve in Hell
Champions don't make comebacks, they recover from setbacks - Shawn
Ray, champion bodybuilder
"Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than
we can think." - Werner Heisenberg
An oxymoron a day keeps reality away
"The time to make up your mind about people is... never!" - Tracy Lord
(Katharine Hepburn), in The Philadelphia Story
Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind
rent-free.
If it don't turn you on you better leave it alone.
Take my hand if you don't know where you are going. I'll understand,
I've lost the way myself.
The only person who got everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
"If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible
to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would
fill a ball eight miles wide." - A Briefer History of Time, Stephen
Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be
restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the
unwilling. - William Blake, The Marraige of Heaven and Hell
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl
mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But a stitch in time saves nine...
the choice is yours.
There are two ways to perceive the world; as if nothing is miraculous
or as if everything is miraculous. - Albert Einstein
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic
religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and
theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based
on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural
and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. - Albert Einstein
Anonymity enables its adopter to seek fame while shielding him from
the meaner consequences of fame-seeking.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. Or, eh, Woody
Allen movies.
Most people don't act stupid; it's the real thing! - Alfred E. Neuman,
from Issue 324, Mad Magazine.
"Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all
of the time and have the time of your life." -- Anonymous
I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well,
to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track
myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in
the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask
yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible
summer. --Albert Camus
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack
of confidence." - Doug McLeod
"Every gun that is made, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final
sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold
and not clothed." -- Dwight Eisenhower, London Guardian
Garzob! The transformation has begun!
I plan to live forever. So far, so good.
Let noone live in your head rent free!
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
I'm used to the cold. Trouble is, the cold is used to me!
We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first
time. - T.S. Eliot
"I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
In Bali we have no art. We do everything as well as possible.
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish
and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day." ...Don Dieball
"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and
ages it is the rule." -Friedrich Nietzshe
"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifiling
exception, is composed of others" - John Andrew Holmes
"Eternity is in love with the productions of Time." - William Blake
"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is
bacteria." - Old German Proverb
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the
realization of how much you already have.
"People with no interests in life are boring."
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind...it doesn't
matter" - Mark Twain
Rome was not built in a day, but nowadays it can be destroyed in five
seconds.
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power and magic in it." - Goethe
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I
approved of it. - Mark Twain
I'm not looking for someone to grow old with. I'm looking for someone
to stay young with.
If you always tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -
Mark Twain
People smart enough to give good advice are usually smart enough to
give none.
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he
grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. - Samuel Butler
A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.
One ampere is 6.28 billion billion electrons passing a given point per
second.
‘Though it seems that I know that I know,
What I would like to see, is the I that knows me,
When I know, that I know, that I know.’ - Alan Watts
If there's anything godlike about God it is that he dared to imagine
everything.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about
God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. -Henry Miller
A word to the wise is sufficient.
Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to
climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. -
Albert Einstein
Good luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, bad luck
is what happens when lack of preparation meets a challenge. - Paul
Krugman
When I'm doing something physically dangerous I try to do it in such a
way that I will be injured on average once every 10,000 years.
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. Anything you do could be a mistake.
Deliver me from reasons why, you'd rather cry, I'd rather fly. - Jim
Morrison
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a
difficult one. - Bruce Lee
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he
hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front
only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it
had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not
lived." - Henry David Thoreau
"Be not simply good - be good for something." - Henry David Thoreau
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you
have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of
his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet
with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with
success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly
mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it
falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see
it?" - Henry David Thoreau
It's no accident that the first four letters of "health" are "heal."
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is
noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by
experience, which is the bitterest." -- Confucius
"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you
realize that you have enough, you are truly rich." -- Lao Tzu, Tao Te
Ching
"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only
the wise can see them." -- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age
brings wisdom." -- H.L. Mencken
"He who stands for nothing will fall for anything." -- Alexander
Hamilton
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." -- Rumi, Masnavi i
Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
"If you're reading this... congratulations, you're alive. If that's
not something to smile about, then I don't know what is." -- Chad Sugg,
Monsters Under Your Head
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but
also to hate his friends." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Music is ... a higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy" --
Ludwig van Beethoven
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the
life that is waiting for us." -- Joseph Campbell
"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes
you a pianist." -- Michael Levine
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." -- Albert Einstein
"Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk
nothing." -- Leo Buscaglia
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." -- Albert
Einstein
"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend
yourself or make excuses."-- Brian Tracy
"I don't understand people who say they need more "Me Time." What
other time is there? Do these people spend part of their day in someone
else's body?" -- Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and
discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are
one's mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
If you always know where you are, you are lost.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't
very Fuzzy, was he?
- -
“Promise Yourself
To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.
To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
-- Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
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Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. - Wm
Blake
"I would not run around the corner to see the world blow up" - Henry
David Thoreau
Procrastination is akin to prevarication.
The man who thinks he's the luckiest man on the planet really is.
“We have two classes of forecasters: Those who don’t know and those
who don’t know they don’t know." - Kenneth Galbraith
Money can't make you happy but it can help. - Jay Leno
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness
consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of
life.” -- Albert Camus
The old appeals to racial, sexual, religious chauvinism to rabid
nationalist fervor are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is
developing which sees the Earth as a single organism and recognizes that
AN ORGANISM AT WAR WITH ITSELF IS DOOMED."
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is
a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress." - John
Adams
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations
which we can perform without thinking about them. - Alfred North
Whitehead
The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard
substitute, Anesthesia. - Alfred North Whitehead
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is
exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. -
Alfred North Whitehead
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim
to be the most original creation of the human spirit. - Alfred North
Whitehead
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness. - Wm Blake
It's all in the mind, you know. - George Harrison
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Who would teach the child to doubt the rotting grave shall ne'er get
out. - William Blake
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness
to contemplate what is happening. - Marshall McLuhan
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Some Albert Einstein quotations:
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak
minds."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living
at it."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates
empirically."
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday
thinking."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological
criminal."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by
understanding."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
comprehensible."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
we created them."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned
in school."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
reason for existing."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you
mine are still greater."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the
present, but an equation is something for eternity."
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is
play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not
sure about the universe."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must,
above all, be a sheep."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no
risk of accident for someone who's dead."
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel
libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans
themselves."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense
that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain
in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon
as first love?"
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior
spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive
with our frail and feeble mind."
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and
our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for
politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation
stands forever."
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of
thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If
only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit
to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his
intelligence."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as
good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would
indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment
and hope of reward after death."
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more
certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie
through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but
through striving after rational knowledge."
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That
means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the
distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion."
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull
his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you
understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send
signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there
is no cat."
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations,
whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect
on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the
consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire
year."
"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is
escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless
dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A
finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the
world of objective perception and thought."
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should
be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all
this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to
shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that
killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can
be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Oh, I do all kinds of stuff. This morning I'm trying to troubleshoot my desktop. Swapped RAM, installed HD and won't post. Later on I'll skate the streets... plenty to do!!! Started saving quotes, maybe 10-15 years ago, I have a table of them. I wrote a function that spits out a random quote... I'll run it now, let's see what it comes up with (of course I approved of each one when I entered it in the table):So what do you do with your time other then save quotes?
Seriously though nice post ... I'll be borrowing a few of these!
Here's a collection of quotations I sent out the people I know a few years ago:
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"Conformity killed the cat. Curiosity was framed."
"The Soul of Sweet Delight can never be defiled." - William Blake
"Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you." -
William Blake
"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing." - Lao Tze
"There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or
condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to
make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself." --
Laurell K. Hamilton
Happiness is knowing what you have to do and doing it.
"I was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows, they learned to swim." -
U2, Until The End Of The World
I want to die calm and peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not
kicking and screaming like the passengers of his car.
The next best thing to knowing what to do is knowing when to be
careful
People protest fur more that leather because it is easier to strip fur
coats off women than leather jackets off biker gangs.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. - Blaise Pascal
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown
aside with great force. -Dorothy Parker
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking
what one has to do.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while
they snub contentment. -Doug Larsen
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
-Brother Dave Gardner
Happiness is being married to your best friend.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it
under his feet. -James Oppenheim
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. -Burton Hills
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." -
James Dean
...and the best reason is that I want to.
Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them
first for seven hours, they always come out tender. - WC Fields
Any man who hates children can't be all bad. - WC Fields
The geek shall inherit the earth.
Segal's Law: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two
watches is never sure.
Yogi Berra: "The future ain't what it used to be."
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every
man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance
in the entire population. - Albert Einstein
He who doubts from what he sees will ne'er believe, do what you
please. - William Blake
"If guns were outlawed, only outlaws would have guns." Well, yes,
that's exactly what I'm saying...
"You never know what is enough until you know what is too much." -
William Blake
"When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they
look in the same direction." - Ginger Rogers
"Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream." - Oscar Wilde
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." -- Albert
Einstein
"Progress is not possible without change, and those who cannot change
their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw
"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject
themselves." - Charles Chaplin
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's
unfamiliar territory. - Paul Fix
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown
aside with great force -Dorothy Parker
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
-Kahlil Gibran
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm:
usually because they could not walk. - Nietzsche
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have
nothing whatever to do with it. - W. Somerset Maugham
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our
appetite and make the world seem empty. - Eric Hoffer
Death has proven to be 99% fatal to laboratory animals.
I have never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary
notices I have read with pleasure. - Clarence Darrow
Thingy - Definition: Common technical term for whatever it is that you
can't remember the real name of. Also Known As: thingamabob,
whatchamacallit, doodad, thingamajigger
"Are you a procrastinator?" ..."I don't know, ask me later."
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Inscription at the beginning of Chapter Two (Organizing Priorities) of
Renovating Old Houses, 2nd Edition, by George Nash
A New York lawyer busy with the many chores in closing his place for the
winter interrupted his work to say goodbye to his neighbor at a time he
thought appropriate for the farmer's schedule. It turned out, as it
sometimes does with supposedly taciturn denizens of the hill country,
that his neighbor wanted to talk, and after some exchange the lawyer
said, "I'm sorry but I've got to go along. Have a hundred things to do."
"You've got a hundred things to do?"
"Well, perhaps not quite," the New Yorker repied, "but it seems that
many."
"Let me give you a piece of advice," said the Vermonter, "Do 'em one at
a time."
- Allen R. Foley, What The Old-Timer Said
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Do you really think I care what you eat or what you wear...
Better to rule in Heaven than serve in Hell
Champions don't make comebacks, they recover from setbacks - Shawn
Ray, champion bodybuilder
"Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than
we can think." - Werner Heisenberg
An oxymoron a day keeps reality away
"The time to make up your mind about people is... never!" - Tracy Lord
(Katharine Hepburn), in The Philadelphia Story
Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind
rent-free.
If it don't turn you on you better leave it alone.
Take my hand if you don't know where you are going. I'll understand,
I've lost the way myself.
The only person who got everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
"If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible
to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would
fill a ball eight miles wide." - A Briefer History of Time, Stephen
Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be
restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the
unwilling. - William Blake, The Marraige of Heaven and Hell
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl
mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But a stitch in time saves nine...
the choice is yours.
There are two ways to perceive the world; as if nothing is miraculous
or as if everything is miraculous. - Albert Einstein
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic
religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and
theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based
on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural
and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. - Albert Einstein
Anonymity enables its adopter to seek fame while shielding him from
the meaner consequences of fame-seeking.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. Or, eh, Woody
Allen movies.
Most people don't act stupid; it's the real thing! - Alfred E. Neuman,
from Issue 324, Mad Magazine.
"Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all
of the time and have the time of your life." -- Anonymous
I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well,
to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track
myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in
the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask
yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible
summer. --Albert Camus
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack
of confidence." - Doug McLeod
"Every gun that is made, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final
sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold
and not clothed." -- Dwight Eisenhower, London Guardian
Garzob! The transformation has begun!
I plan to live forever. So far, so good.
Let noone live in your head rent free!
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
I'm used to the cold. Trouble is, the cold is used to me!
We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first
time. - T.S. Eliot
"I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
In Bali we have no art. We do everything as well as possible.
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish
and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day." ...Don Dieball
"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and
ages it is the rule." -Friedrich Nietzshe
"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifiling
exception, is composed of others" - John Andrew Holmes
"Eternity is in love with the productions of Time." - William Blake
"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is
bacteria." - Old German Proverb
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the
realization of how much you already have.
"People with no interests in life are boring."
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind...it doesn't
matter" - Mark Twain
Rome was not built in a day, but nowadays it can be destroyed in five
seconds.
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power and magic in it." - Goethe
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I
approved of it. - Mark Twain
I'm not looking for someone to grow old with. I'm looking for someone
to stay young with.
If you always tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -
Mark Twain
People smart enough to give good advice are usually smart enough to
give none.
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he
grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. - Samuel Butler
A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.
One ampere is 6.28 billion billion electrons passing a given point per
second.
‘Though it seems that I know that I know,
What I would like to see, is the I that knows me,
When I know, that I know, that I know.’ - Alan Watts
If there's anything godlike about God it is that he dared to imagine
everything.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about
God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. -Henry Miller
A word to the wise is sufficient.
Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to
climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. -
Albert Einstein
Good luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, bad luck
is what happens when lack of preparation meets a challenge. - Paul
Krugman
When I'm doing something physically dangerous I try to do it in such a
way that I will be injured on average once every 10,000 years.
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. Anything you do could be a mistake.
Deliver me from reasons why, you'd rather cry, I'd rather fly. - Jim
Morrison
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a
difficult one. - Bruce Lee
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he
hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front
only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it
had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not
lived." - Henry David Thoreau
"Be not simply good - be good for something." - Henry David Thoreau
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you
have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of
his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet
with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with
success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly
mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it
falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see
it?" - Henry David Thoreau
It's no accident that the first four letters of "health" are "heal."
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is
noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by
experience, which is the bitterest." -- Confucius
"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you
realize that you have enough, you are truly rich." -- Lao Tzu, Tao Te
Ching
"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only
the wise can see them." -- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age
brings wisdom." -- H.L. Mencken
"He who stands for nothing will fall for anything." -- Alexander
Hamilton
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." -- Rumi, Masnavi i
Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
"If you're reading this... congratulations, you're alive. If that's
not something to smile about, then I don't know what is." -- Chad Sugg,
Monsters Under Your Head
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but
also to hate his friends." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Music is ... a higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy" --
Ludwig van Beethoven
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the
life that is waiting for us." -- Joseph Campbell
"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes
you a pianist." -- Michael Levine
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." -- Albert Einstein
"Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk
nothing." -- Leo Buscaglia
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." -- Albert
Einstein
"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend
yourself or make excuses."-- Brian Tracy
"I don't understand people who say they need more "Me Time." What
other time is there? Do these people spend part of their day in someone
else's body?" -- Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and
discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are
one's mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
If you always know where you are, you are lost.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't
very Fuzzy, was he?
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“Promise Yourself
To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.
To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
-- Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
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Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. - Wm
Blake
"I would not run around the corner to see the world blow up" - Henry
David Thoreau
Procrastination is akin to prevarication.
The man who thinks he's the luckiest man on the planet really is.
“We have two classes of forecasters: Those who don’t know and those
who don’t know they don’t know." - Kenneth Galbraith
Money can't make you happy but it can help. - Jay Leno
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness
consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of
life.” -- Albert Camus
The old appeals to racial, sexual, religious chauvinism to rabid
nationalist fervor are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is
developing which sees the Earth as a single organism and recognizes that
AN ORGANISM AT WAR WITH ITSELF IS DOOMED."
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is
a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress." - John
Adams
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations
which we can perform without thinking about them. - Alfred North
Whitehead
The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard
substitute, Anesthesia. - Alfred North Whitehead
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is
exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. -
Alfred North Whitehead
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim
to be the most original creation of the human spirit. - Alfred North
Whitehead
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness. - Wm Blake
It's all in the mind, you know. - George Harrison
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Who would teach the child to doubt the rotting grave shall ne'er get
out. - William Blake
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness
to contemplate what is happening. - Marshall McLuhan
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Some Albert Einstein quotations:
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak
minds."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living
at it."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates
empirically."
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday
thinking."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological
criminal."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by
understanding."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
comprehensible."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
we created them."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned
in school."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
reason for existing."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you
mine are still greater."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the
present, but an equation is something for eternity."
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is
play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not
sure about the universe."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must,
above all, be a sheep."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no
risk of accident for someone who's dead."
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel
libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans
themselves."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense
that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain
in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon
as first love?"
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior
spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive
with our frail and feeble mind."
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and
our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for
politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation
stands forever."
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of
thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If
only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit
to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his
intelligence."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as
good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would
indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment
and hope of reward after death."
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more
certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie
through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but
through striving after rational knowledge."
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That
means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the
distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion."
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull
his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you
understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send
signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there
is no cat."
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations,
whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect
on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the
consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire
year."
"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is
escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless
dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A
finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the
world of objective perception and thought."
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should
be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all
this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to
shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that
killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can
be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Oh, I do all kinds of stuff. This morning I'm trying to troubleshoot my desktop. Swapped RAM, installed HD and won't post. Later on I'll skate the streets... plenty to do!!! Started saving quotes, maybe 10-15 years ago, I have a table of them. I wrote a function that spits out a random quote... I'll run it now, let's see what it comes up with (of course I approved of each one when I entered it in the table):
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We've been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled. — Yoko Ono
"it's not the SUMMIT, it's the climb"
Uh, the machine boots off an NVMe. I just installed a 2GB HD in there. Apparently the problem had to do with the mobo not seeing the RAM. I swapped slots, still no go. Eventually put in just one stick. Nope. Then moved it to the other slot. YEP! Then inserted the other stick and I'm OK (32GB). Crazy ass shit. But it's working now...HDD?
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. - Mark Twain
Difficult to question the logic here !!!