"Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." – Winston Churchill
“Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” – Winston Churchill
Month: May 2010
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star." – Friedrich Nietzsche
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." – Mark Twain
“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” – Mark Twain
"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you." – Doug Horton
“Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.” – Doug Horton
"Living well is the best revenge" – George Herbert
“Living well is the best revenge” – George Herbert
"Think much, speak little, and write less" – French Proverb
“Think much, speak little, and write less” – French Proverb
"The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air" – English Proverb
“The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air” – English Proverb
"Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world – stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death – and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the" – Henry Van Dyke
“Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world – stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death – …
"You’ll see it when you believe it." – Wayne Dyer
“You’ll see it when you believe it.” – Wayne Dyer
"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection." – Lawrence Durrell
“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
"Poor Elsa Lanchester. She left England because it already had a queen – Victoria. And she wanted to be queen of the Charles Laughton household, once he became a star, but he already had the role." – Marlene Dietrich
“Poor Elsa Lanchester. She left England because it already had a queen – Victoria. And she wanted to be queen of the Charles Laughton household, …
"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill." – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man, who cannot believe in anything else, are both insane" – Lord Chesterfield
“The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man, who cannot believe in anything else, are both insane” – Lord Chesterfield
"It gets down to core values, how you can live and keep things straight and maintain an even keel. It helps to listen to people who share how they’ve done it. It’s an everlasting human story." – Robert Brown
“It gets down to core values, how you can live and keep things straight and maintain an even keel. It helps to listen to people …
"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor." – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living." – Emily Bronte
“Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.” – Emily Bronte
"I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything" – Henry Ward Beecher
“I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do …
"Teaching is the highest form of understanding." – Aristotle
“Teaching is the highest form of understanding.” – Aristotle
"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act." – James Agate
“Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.” – James Agate
"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust" – Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust” – Jalal ad-Din Rumi
"I felt no pressure at all." – Ai Miyazato
“I felt no pressure at all.” – Ai Miyazato
"We’re excited to be hosting a first round game. Anything can happen in a one-game situation. We have to come ready to play (today)." – Ab Argent
“We’re excited to be hosting a first round game. Anything can happen in a one-game situation. We have to come ready to play (today).” – …
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
No hay cínicos, no hay materialistas. Todo hombre es un idealista, sólo que sucede con demasiada frecuencia que tiene un ideal equivocado. Frases de Gilbert …
Wem genug zu wenig ist, dem ist nichts genug. (Epikur)
Geburtstag und ZITAT DES TAGES von heute: Epikur (17.5.-341 – 31.12.-270) Philosoph, Grundsatz: Suche das Glück als Leben in Freude und Lust ohne Schmerzen und …
"The best teams I’ve had had a little bit of a swagger," – John Calipari
“The best teams I’ve had had a little bit of a swagger,” – John Calipari
Paranoia
A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. – Bunuel, Luis
Physician — One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. -Bierce, Ambrose
Physician — One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. -Bierce, Ambrose
"Tell me what you brag about and I’ll tell you what you lack" – Spanish Proverb
“Tell me what you brag about and I’ll tell you what you lack” – Spanish Proverb
"If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is not befitting the human mind." – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in …
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall" – William Shakespeare
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall” – William Shakespeare
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." – Ronald Reagan
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” – Ronald …
"Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one’s first productions." – Andre Maurois
“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then …
"Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies." – Walter Lippmann
“Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding …
"Our fears always outnumber our dangers" – Latin Proverb
“Our fears always outnumber our dangers” – Latin Proverb
"Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade" – Arabian Proverb
“Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade” – Arabian Proverb
"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self." – Confucius
“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look …
"There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart." – Lao Tzu
“There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.” – Lao Tzu
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it." – Voltaire
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.” – Voltaire
"Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything." – Winnie the Pooh
“Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.” – Winnie the Pooh