quotes

"If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse can happen the rest of the day." Unknown

"There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories." Ursula K. LeGuin

"Credit is infinitely divisible. Give it away every chance you get, and there's always plenty left for you." Unknown

"You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it." Thomas Kuhn

"May you never forget what is worth remembering and never remember what is best forgotten."  Anonymous

"Life should not be a journey to Heaven with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow, what a ride!'" Author Unknown

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little." Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (1771-1845)

"The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer." Bertrand Russell

"But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people." Randy Pausch The Last Lecture

"It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story." Native American saying

"Where there is rhythm, there is grace.Where there is grace, there is efficiency." Christopher Bergland

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." Ben Williams

"Our theories determine what we measure." Albert Einstein

"So many people have spent a lifetime for preparing themselves for technological skills yet have spent no time training themselves on how to influence people so the technical skills make a difference." Marshall Goldsmith

"The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions -- none more so than the most capable." Theodore Dreiser, author (1871-1945)

"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition." Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)

"If we know ourselves, we're always home, anywhere." Glinda, the good witch of the South, in THE WIZ

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." Desmond Tutu, clergyman (b. 1931)

"There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all." :-)

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." Aung San Suu Kyi

"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." Horace

"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing." Henry David Thoreau

"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before." Steven Wright, comedian (b. 1955)