Buddha (sage, Nepali, 563-483 BC) ... Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Benedict Evans (from WSJ, venture capitalist) ... While relationships are important, you do deals with an economic model and a checkbook.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (philosopher, French, 1881-1955) ... Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Steve Martin (comedian, American, 1945-present) ... Love is a promise delivered already broken.
Democritus (philosopher, Greek, 460-370 BC) ... Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Thomas Jefferson (President, American, 1743 - July 4, 1826) ... I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Democritus (philosopher, Greek, 460-370 BC) ... Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Robert Heinlein (writer, American, 1907-1988) ... One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
Julia Child (The French Chef, American, 1912-2004) ... You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.
Lao Tzu (philospher, author 'Tao Te Ching', Chinese, Zhou dynasty, circa 6th century BC) ... Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
Captain Hebron Morris (Captain, 'Siren Song', English, mid-17th century) ... Kindness costs next to nothing.
Vanna Bonta (novelist, expert on sex in space, American, 1958) ... Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
Ernest Hemingway (writer, American, 1899-1961) ... Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Charles M. Schultz (cartoonist, 'Snoopy', American, 1922-2000) ... No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
Samuel Johnson (writer, English, 1709-1784) ... Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
William Shakespeare (playwright, English, 1564-1616) ... No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Tennessee Williams (playwright, American, 1911-1983) ... For time is the longest distance between two places.
Jerry Seinfeld (comic, American, 1954-present) ... Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
James Baldwin (author, American, 1924-1987) ... Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
Henry David Thoreau (author, US, 1817-1852) ... Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Franz Kafka (author, Czech, 1883-1924) ... God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Oscar Wilde (wit, English, 1854-1900) ... True friends stab you in the front.
Robert Browning (poet, English, 1812-1889) ... Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
[Somewhat sadly so, I'd say now, but music was a rarer commodity back then. Now there's seemingly no escape from it anywhere.]
Louis L'Amor (author, American, 1908-1988) ... I think of myself as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
Stephen Hawking (physicist, English, 1942-present) ... It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Thomas Sowell (economist, American, 1930-present) ... People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Buddha (sage of suffering, Nepalese, 563-483 BC) ... Happiness never decreases by being shared.
George Jean Nathan (editor, American, 1882-1958) ... Art is the sex of the imagination.
Abraham Lincoln (President, American, 1809-1865) ... Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
No comments:
Post a Comment