Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Favorite Quotes
The happiness of your life depends upon the
quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard
accordingly, and take care that you entertain no
notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable
nature. -Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
Character cannot be developed in ease and
quiet. Only through experience of trial and
suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition
inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Adams
Keller (1880-1968)
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly
heroic transformation of consciousness. -Joseph
Campbell
Life is either a daring adventure or it is
nothing. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
Our sincerest laughter \ With some pain is
fraught; \ Our sweetest songs are those that tell
of saddest thought. -Shelley
Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or
man. There is no difference there between a cat or
a man. The idea of difference is a human
conception for man's own advantage. -Sri Aurobindo
When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart
she produces a philosopher to speak her
mind. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but
looking together in the same direction."
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk
on the water, but to walk on the earth. -Chinese
proverb
If you love something, set it free. If it comes
back, it was, and alway serious money, that can be
intellectually stimulating s will be yours. If it
never returns, it was never yours to begin with.
We shall never cease from exploration \ And the
end of all our exploring \ Will be to arrive where
we started \ And know the place for the first
time. -T.S. Eliot
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one
can take it away from him. An investment of
knowledge always pays the best interest. -Benjamin
Franklin
I like simple, if it's complex then I don't
understand it. -Seymour Cray, inventor of the Cray
supercomputer
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf. -Rabindranath
Tagore, Indian Poet (1861-1941)
some things are within our control, and some
things are not. It is only after you have faced up
to this fundamental rule and learned to
distinguish between what you can and can't control
that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness
become possible. accomplishing what can be
accomplished and abandoning unproductive worry
over what cannot.
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt
with the heart. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
The way I see it, if you want to be entirely by
technology or replaced by a machine. The
repetitive work that people used to do in
factories is being done by machines or robots.
You look around the world and almost any job thatt
rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. -Dolly
Parton
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit,
they must be the right words shaped cunningly to
pass men's defenses and explode silently and
effectually within their minds. -J.B. Phillips
During the first period of a man's life the
greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once
the risk has really been taken, then the greatest
danger is to risk too much. -Soren Aaby
Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813-1855)
The past exists only in our memories, the future
only in our plans. The present is our only
reality. -Robert Pirsig
The best lack all conviction, while the worst /
Are full of passionate intensity. -William Butler
Yeats [The Second Coming]
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that
makes the difference. -Voltaire
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in
which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other
pleasures fade. -Anthony Trollope
The illusion that we are separate from one another
is an optical delusion of our
consciousness. -Albert Einstein
There are two kinds of light--the glow that
illuminates, and the glare that obscures. -James
Thurber
When we are unable to find tranquility within
ourselves, it is useless to seek it
elsewhere. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is easy in the world to live after the world's
opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your
own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of
the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the
independence of solitude. -Ralph Waldo Emerson,
American writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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Eleanor Roosevelt wrote:
Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it it your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Friends, you and me....
You brought another friend...
And then there were 3...
We started our group...
Our circle of friends...
And like that circle...
There is no beginning or end...
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.
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The accusations are familiar. We of the West are
accused of sexism, racism, and imperialism,
institutionalized in patriarchy and slavery, tyranny
and exploitation. To these charges, and to others as
heinous, we have no option but to plead guilty -- not
as Americans, nor yet as Westerners, but simply as
human beings, as members of the human race. In
none of these sins are we the only sinners, and in
some of them we are very far from being the worst.
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You look around the world and almost any job that is
worth having - that can earn serious money, that can be
intellectually stimulating - requires a fairly sophisticated
kind of thinking. That's exciting in one sense because it
means that people don't have to look forward to jobs that
are drudgery. It's also scary in some cases, because if
you don't develop analytical skills, there aren't too
many jobs left for you.
I am not sure I can describe to you what being creative is,
or why you feel good when you've created something, but I
just know it's important. It's exciting. You feel energized
when you create something. I think it is a big deal to give
students a set of skills and an analytic background that
allows them to create things, to invent things.
By Deans Kamen
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Advice to young person from Leo Breiman
Take statistics, but remember that the great adventure
of statistics is in gathering and using data to solve
interesting and important real world problems.
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Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody is watching.
Sing like nobody is listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
-author unknown-
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Don't live as if you will never die.
Don't die as if you have never lived.
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I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
GOD forbid love ever leave you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,
Never settle for the path of least resistance,
Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin',
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin',
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter,
When you come close to sellin' out reconsider,
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance,
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