Month: November 2008

David P. Mikkelson

“The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their …

Shimon Peres

“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with …

George Eliot

“There’s folks ‘ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i’ their boots.”

Ellen Goodman

“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe, aren’t even aware of.”

Erica Jong

“If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.”

the Dhammapada

“If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse… If one speaks or acts with a pure …

Gertrude Stein

“In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.”

Eric Hoffer

“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.”

Jane Wagner

“Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.”

Oscar Wilde

“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.”

John Keats

“Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and …

Arnold Bennett

“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a …

Horace

“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”

Ann Radcliffe

“Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.”

Amy Bloom

“Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.”

Ben Stein

“I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty…This is my highest …

Natalie Goldberg

“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.”

Helen Keller

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”

Frank Tyger

“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”

Og Mandino

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

Sir Francis Bacon

“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”

Plato

“You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile …

Aristotle

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

Evan Esar

“Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.”

Cullen Hightower

“Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.”

Casey Stengel

“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”

Oscar Levant

“There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

Thomas Mann

“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”

Ray Bradbury

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really …

W. C. Fields

“I’ve never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother.”

Russell Baker

“The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.”

Moses Hadas

“I have read your book and much like it.”

Stephen Jay Gould

“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question.”