Archives for June 2013

What you’ve got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don’t wuss out.
—Michael Bloomberg (American Businessperson)

The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.
—John Adams (American Head of State)

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
—Jerry Seinfeld (American Comedian)

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.
—Robert J. Shiller

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won’t get much sleep..
—Woody Allen (American Actor)

Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Showing up is 80 percent of life.
—Woody Allen (American Actor)

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
—Ayn Rand (Russian-born American Novelist)

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

Don’t try to see God, but act in such a way that God will want to see you.
—Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura (Indian Hindu Religious Leader)

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
—Ayn Rand (Russian-born American Novelist)

A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
—Walt Disney (American Entrepreneur)

We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
—James Cash Penney (American Entrepreneur)

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
—Robert Frost (American Poet)

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
—Barbra Streisand (American Musician)

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted, it belongs to the brave.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
—G. K. Chesterton (English Journalist)

All search is vain, until we begin to perceive that wisdom is within ourselves … then we may know the sun is rising, that the morning is breaking for us.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
—Walt Disney (American Entrepreneur)

Be eager to acquire knowledge; it does not come to thee by inheritance.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)

If you want to become the kind of person that any company would kill to have as an employee, you need to be the kind of employee that’s really picky about who you align with.
—Seth Godin (American Entrepreneur)

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
—Desiderius Erasmus (Dutch Catholic Humanist)

Giving advice makes the recipient feel less efficacious, so weigh that against the benefit your advice will likely yield.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)

There’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life.
—Charlie Chaplin (British Actor)

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
—G. K. Chesterton (English Journalist)

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy—and when he talks about a nonscientific matter, he will sound as naive as anyone untrained in the matter.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

The madman thinks the rest of the world crazy.
—Publilius Syrus (Syrian-born Latin Writer)

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
—Alexander Pope (English Poet)

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing “out there” is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.
—Byron Katie (American Speaker)

I wanted to indulge and explore my love of humanity and especially my concern for persons less fortunate than myself.
—Arthur Ashe (American Sportsperson)

Far more of life’s pleasures are in the process than in the outcome. Be in the moment.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (American Physician)

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
—Rene Descartes (French Philosopher, Mathematician)

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
—Edward Gibbon (English Historian)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
—T. S. Eliot (American-born British Poet)

Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it.
—Brian Tracy (American Author)

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
—Galileo Galilei (Italian Astronomer)

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
—George Santayana (Spanish Philosopher)