Some geniuses were laughed at

Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan

third-rate mind is only happy

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

—A. A. Milne

Normal is getting dressed in clothes

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

What is a human being

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.”

Robert Heinlein

It requires a great deal of boldness

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Histories make men wise

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment;

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

When you come to the edge of all the light

When you come to the edge of all the light you know
and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen; there will be something solid to stand on--or you will be taught how to fly.

It is not the world that makes you angry

It is not the world that makes you angry, it is yourself. Not how they accept you, but how you accept them. Not the way they treat you, but the way you treat them. It is the way you see this life, that decides how your life would be

Being constantly with children

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

This morning I worked on an orchard of plum trees

This morning I worked on an orchard of plum trees in bloom; all at once a fierce wind sprang up, an effect I had seen nowhere else but here, and returned at intervals. The sun shone in between, and all the little white flowers sparkled. … I went on painting at the risk and peril of seeing the whole show on the ground at any moment -- it's a white effect with a good deal of yellow in it, and blue and lilac, the sky white and blue
Vincent van Gogh

The decision to kiss

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story.
It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.”

To have faith

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water,

because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Monkeys typewriters

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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

Dead bodies

Dead bodies only have vultures in their destiny not hawks

Beauty of Water

Only those people that have directly experienced the wetlands that line the shore...can appreciate their mystic qualities. The beauty of rising mists at dusk, the ebb and flow of the tides, the merging of fresh and salt waters.

Life's but a walking shadow

Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

-William Shakespeare

The principal goal of education

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget

Success

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome

Sit under a tree with a picnic basket

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter

~Roy Lichtenstein

And whoever disbelieves in God

And whoever disbelieves in God and his angels and his books and his messengers and the last day, he indeed strays far away

Be yourself.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."

Donald Rumsfeld

A bank is a place

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it

Believer is happier than a sceptic

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a

drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction." -
Obama

Like a mosquito

I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I ought to do, but I don't know where to begin

When it comes to sports

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury

Fran Lebowitz

Most valuable result of all education

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly

Thomas Henry Huxley

We worship an awesome God

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States and we don`t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States.

We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States

We don’t have a traditional strategy

We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies.

It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.

Eric Schmidt

Our passions are like convulsion fits

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Alexander Pope

This is not the age of pamphleteers

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen.
Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

Lancelot Hogben

Dreams pass into the reality

Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Innovation by definition will not be accepted at first

Innovation by definition will not be accepted at first.

It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires 'courageous patience'

The angels

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not

We have an obligation and a responsibility

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will,

but not the money, can still get the best education possible

I like nonsense

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do,
And that enables you to laugh at life's realities

Seuss

Making Money

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart.
We make it by innovation.
Steve Jobs

It took a lot of blood

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

We are not myths of the past

We are not myths of the past,
ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected

not to be victims of intolerance and racism

Rigoberta Menchu

Pay attention to your dreams

Pay attention to your dreams
God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.

Eileen Elias Freeman

During my lifetime

During my lifetime
I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Nelson Mandela

An eye for eye

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Gandhi

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund

Sometimes risk taking

Sometimes risk taking may involve the most simple of acts.
Yet we often whip up a bag full of excuses to avoid taking action. For goodness sake (literally), let's step beyond our security bubbles and start reaching out to those who cross our path.

The road to happiness

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it -
every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have

Obstacles in Life

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin.

At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

We grow great by dreams

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.


Woodrow Wilson