To Govern Quote
To govern, is to choose.
Motto of French diplomats of the 17th and 18th centuries
If a battle cannot be won, don't fight it.
Sun Tzu
Words Aptly Spoken - Paradoxes of Our Times
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life.
We’ve added years to life, not life to years.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.
We conquered outer space but not inner space.
We’ve done larger things, but not better things.
We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less.
We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait.
We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men and short character; steep profits and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.
Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to
you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember to give a warm hug to the one next to you because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent.
Remember, to say, “I love you” to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it.
A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.
Give time to love, give time to speak and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
From Dr. Bob Moorehead - Words Aptly Spoken
Knowledge & Error - Jung Quote
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Gustav Jung
Baltasar Gracian Quotes
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Evil report carries further than any applause.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
When desire dies, fear is born.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Entrepreneurship Quotes - Entrepreneur Quotations
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
Herodotus
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The entrepreneur is not really interested in doing the work; he is interested in creating the way the company operates. In that regard, the entrepreneur is an inventor. He or she loves to invent, but does not love to manufacture or sell or distribute what he or she invents.
Michael Gerber
I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
Muhammad Yunus
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter Drucker
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Victor Kiam
The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.
Michael Gerber
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
Debbi Fields
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Richard Branson
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
Bill Gates
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
Nolan Bushnell
Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.
Peter Drucker
When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.
Mary Kay Ash
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
Henry Kravis
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.
Roy Ash
The entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We're born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies.
Michael Gerber
To venture causes anxiety but not to venture is to lose one’s self.
Soren Kierkegaard
Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
Carlos Slim Helu
The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.
Michael Gerber
There is nothing more difficult to handle, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its outcome, than to take the lead in introducing a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
Peter Drucker
An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovate, is doomed to decline and extinction.
Peter Drucker
Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically nothing: fundamentally it is a human, creative act.
Jeffry Timmons
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Thomas Edison
If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.
Chinese proverb
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
Bill Rancic
But do your thing, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
Emerson
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
Richard Branson
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Intuition Quotes
Knowledge has three degrees—opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
Plotinus
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.
Fritjof Capra
We need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
Shakti Gawain
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
Robert Graves
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you`ll discover will be wonderful. What you`ll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Katherine Anne Porter
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Alexis Carrel
Intuition is usually translated as wahi. It is the mode of revelation through a mysterious faculty different from mind; yet it comes through mindless mind. The knowledge which intuition obtains comes as a result of a mysterious identification of the consciousness with the unseen worlds. These worlds are made up of luminous matter called nur, existing in sheaths within sheaths, nurun ala nur. Man is connected with all these worlds.
M.H.Abdi
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
Alexis Carrel
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
DH Lawrence
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Farrah Fawcett
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
Minna Antrim
Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.
John Kord Lagemann
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.
DH Lawrence
I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
David Selby
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
Robert Heller
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V.S. Naipaul
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn
You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
Ingrid Bergman
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Honoré de Balzac
Worship God
The world is imprisoned in it's own activity, except where actions are performed as worship of God.
Bhagavad Gita
J.K. Rowling Quotes - Harry Potter Quotations
I gave my hero a talent I`d love to have. Who wouldn`t want to fly?
J.K. Rowling
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
J. K. Rowling
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.
J. K. Rowling
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. Rowling
I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them."
J. K. Rowling
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling
Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
J.K. Rowling
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
J. K. Rowling
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
J. K. Rowling
The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don`t work.
J. K. Rowling
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. Rowling
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
J.K. Rowling
Stephen King Quotes
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Stephen King
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
Stephen King
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Stephen King
Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.
Stephen King
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Stephen King
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen King
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen King
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen King
I work until beer o'clock.
Stephen King
Gustave Flaubert Quotes
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
Gustave Flaubert
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
Gustave Flaubert
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
One mustn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert
Relationship Quotes - Relationships Quotations
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Jalal ad-Din Rumi Quotes - Rumi Quotations
Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
In this world of trickery emptiness is what your heart wants.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, "I'll do nothing until I can be sure". Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean!
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Hangovers come with love, yet love's the cure for hangovers.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Barack Obama Quotes - Quotations
Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
Barack Obama
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack Obama
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Barack Obama
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.
Barack Obama
I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Barack Obama
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
Barack Obama
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
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.
Barack Obama
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack Obama
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Barack Obama
If you`re walking down the right path and you`re willing to keep walking, eventually you`ll make progress.
Barack Obama
I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
Barack Obama
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack Obama
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it`s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama
This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.
Barack Obama
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
Barack Obama
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Barack Obama
The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
Barack Obama
John Templeton Quotes
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
John Templeton
I have no quarrel with what I learned in the Presbyterian Church — I am still an enthusiastic Christian. But why shouldn't I try to learn more? Why shouldn't I go to Hindu services? Why shouldn't I go to Muslim services? If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
John Templeton
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
John Templeton
I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.
John Templeton
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
John Templeton
I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.
John Templeton
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
John Templeton
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
John Templeton
The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
John Templeton
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
John Templeton
Work at being a humble person.
John Templeton
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
John Templeton
If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
John Templeton
It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
John Templeton
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
John Templeton
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
John Templeton
We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?
John Templeton
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.
John Templeton
A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.
John Templeton
Simple Living Quotes - Simplicity Quotes
Words of wisdom comes out of simple people mouths.
Arabic proverb
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein
Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
Everybody should practice simple and virtuous living . They should never seek recourse to manipulative tendencies.
Yajur Veda
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo DaVinci
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles de Lint
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
Henry David Thoreau
Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
Confucius
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold Glasgow
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Rumi's Chickpea to Cook
by Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot
where it's being boiled.
"Why are you doing this to me?"
The cook knocks him down with the ladle.
"Don't you try to jump out.
You think I'm torturing you.
I'm giving you flavor,
so you can mix with spices and rice
and be the lovely vitality of a human being.
"Remember when you drank rain in the garden.
That was for this."
Grace first. Sexual pleasure,
then a boiling new life begins,
and the Friend has something good to eat.
Eventually the chickpea
will say to the cook,
"Boil me some more.
Hit me with the skimming spoon.
I can't do this by myself.
"I'm like an elephant that dreams of gardens
back in Hindustan and doesn't pay attention
to his driver. You're my cook, my driver,
my way into existence. I love your cooking."
The cook says,
"I was once like you,
fresh from the ground. Then I boiled in time,
and boiled in the body, two fierce boilings.
"My animal soul grew powerful.
I controlled it with practices,
and boiled some more, and boiled
once beyond that,
and became your teacher."
Learning by Doing is Learning from Failures Quotes
Tell me, I will forget. Show me, I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand.
Chinese Proverb
Or a different version:
I read – I forget
I see – I remember
I do – I understand
The only way to learn to do anything: Just do it = Childlike learning (speaking, walking, etc).
Also: Many arts and special skills like dancing, singing, swimming and martial arts are all learnt by going to an expert or a teacher who makes us learn by doing rather than by listening to lectures or reading books.
Because, by doing, we are given an opportunity to fail.
While doing we tend to fail and failures are very important in the learning process.
Nobody likes to fail.
Once we fail we start wondering what went wrong. Thus at that point of failure a profound learning takes place.
Failures are the stepping stones to success.
One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
Japanese Proverb
Mother Teresa Quotes
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish
that He didn't trust me so much.
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to
that person, a beautiful thing.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are
truly endless.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather
the feeling of being unwanted.
Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong
to each other.
There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I’ve always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic. We believe our work should be our example to people.
I think I'm more difficult than critical.
There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ:
Jesus is my God,
Jesus is my Spouse,
Jesus is my Life,
Jesus is my only Love,
Jesus is my All in All;
Jesus is my Everything.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows
in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the
sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the
devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why
we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread, and by our understanding love, give them peace and joy.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them.
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a
love letter to the world.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you
without leaving happier.
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But
the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy – let us pray.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
When once a chairman of a multinational company came to see me, to offer me a property in Bombay, he first asked: ‘Mother, how do you manage your budget?" I asked him who had sent him here. He replied: ‘I felt an urge inside me.’ I said: other people like you come to see me and say the same. It was clear God sent you, Mr. A, as He sends Mr. X, Mrs. Y, Miss Z, and they provide the material means we need for our work. The grace of God is what moved you. You are my budget. God sees to our needs, as Jesus promised. I accepted the property he gave and named it Asha Dan (Gift of Hope).
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to
love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve
hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved
in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our
love for each other must start.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa - Do It Anyway
People are unreasonable,
illogical, and self-centered,
LOVE THEM ANYWAY
If you do good, people will
accuse you of selfish,
ulterior motives,
DO GOOD ANYWAY
If you are successful, you win
false friends and true enemies,
SUCCEED ANYWAY
The good you do will
be forgotten tomorrow,
DO GOOD ANYWAY
Honesty and frankness
make you vulnerable,
BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY
What you spent years building
may be destroyed overnight,
BUILD ANYWAY
People really need help but
may attack you if you help them,
HELP PEOPLE ANYWAY
Give the world the best you
have and you'll get kicked
in the teeth,
GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU'VE GOT ANYWAY.
From a sign on the wall
of Shishu Bhavan,
the Children's home in Calcutta
Silence Quotes
A quiet mind cureth all.
Robert Burton
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
Mother Teresa
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
Thomas Merton
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
Aristotle
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
Mother Teresa
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
W.W. Story
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Let's Not Over-Analyse: Over-Analysis Quotes
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
by Leo Buscaglia
A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one at all would find fault with what he has done.
More Quotes on Procrastination
The problem isn't that you don't have good ideas. The problem is that you want the assurance that they're going to work out. Nobody gets that assurance. You have to be WILLING to TAKE THAT RISK.
O, The Oprah Magazine (Nov 2002)
Being Different Quotes - Be You - Be Yourself Quotes
If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
Bruce Barton
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict which each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.
F.A. Hayek
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
Always show the you in you that makes you the you that you are.
Chidinma Obietikponah
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes
Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.
David Grayson
Why am I upset when I think that I'm different from everybody else, but angry when I realize that I'm the same?
Heather Heine
I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.
Bette Midler
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Anita Roddick
Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
Rick Pitino
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
Samuel Johnson
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Fanny Brice
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
Marianne Moore
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. Andre Gide
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton
We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you want to stand out, don't be different; be outstanding.
Meredith West
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Charles M. Schwab
All eyes see a different world. All minds live in a different world. Why do we feel the need to force someone to see and live our way? When we do this, we lose sight of our world.
Bobby Lambert
Sophocles Quotes
The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are all likely to go astray,
The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
No man loves life like him that's growing old.
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Japanese Proverbs - Quotes
If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.
While we consider when to begin, it becomes too late.
An accomplishment sticks to a person.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
Sickness is a thing of the spirit.
I will master something, then the creativity will come.
A fog cannot be dispelled by a fan.
A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.
Fix the problem, not the blame.
Duty is heavy as a mountain but
Death is lighter than a feather.
When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead.
The feet are the gateway to 10,000 illnesses.
If you want to know what's happening in the market, ask the market.
All married women are not wives.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulty.
A kind word can warm three months of winter.
One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
We've arrived, and to prove it we're here.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.
Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.
If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look.
My skirt with tears is always wet: I have forgotten to forget.
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
A good husband is healthy and absent.
When the time comes, even a rat becomes a tiger.
Do Your Level Best Each Day Quotes
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
Booker T. Washington
Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me that it possible -show me your achievement - and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryan
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