Archives for “Quotes”
Tweet R-E-S-P-E-C-T find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Take care, TCB ohhhh. Sock it to me… - Aretha Franklin, Respect
Tweet “To understand more clearly what is meant by judgement, imagine a singles match being played by Mr. A and Mr. B, with Mr. C acting as the umpire. Mr. A is serving his second serve to Mr. B on the first point of a tie-breaker. The ball lands wide, and Mr. C calls, “Out. [...]
Tweet “I know that, all my life, I’ve been going around in a fog. You’re just a bunch of molecules until you know who you are. You spend your time getting to be a big Hollywood actor. But then what? You’ve reached a comfortable plateau, and you want to stay on it; you resist change. [...]
Tweet “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and [...]
Tweet From the article: The first dreams we ever had were to be held. And loved. And to explore this amazing world with love in our lives. We dreamed of seeing, touching, and experiencing the world around us, with the happiness and comfort that comes from family. As adults, many of us dream of building [...]
Tweet “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at something worth doing.” - Teddy Roosevelt “Our nation’s work force is the most productive in the world because, as a societal norm, hard-work is deemed honorable and excellence considered admirable. This holiday is about those [...]
Tweet “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason [...]
Tweet Adbusters always gives you something to think about. Agree or not; provocative as always. “I am sure some of us have known moments of joy when our egos took a back seat and the child in us was free to laugh and love. Unfortunately, we lose our innocence too soon and most unfortunately, we [...]
Tweet “I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.” - Clint Eastwood
Tweet “But on this day, he was studying my own performance in business. After what seemed like an eternity, he looked up and said, “Your company has cancer, and I’m afraid it’s terminal. You’ve mismanaged what could have been a rich and powerful company. You don’t know what you’re doing, and worst of all you [...]
Tweet Kay: We do not discharge our weapons in view of the public! Jay: Man, we ain’t got time for this cover-up bullshit! I don’t know whether or not you’ve forgotten, but there’s an Arquillian Battle Cruiser that’s about to… Kay: There’s always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic [...]
Tweet “You are hanging on by a very thin thread and I dig that about you!” – Rod Tidwell
Tweet It’s a red flag to me if there’s just too much consensus and not enough dissent. I feel like in any human community there’s always dissent because people just disagree. Anytime there doesn’t appear to be dissent, it means that the corporate culture has just shifted way too much toward consensus. That means the [...]
Tweet Woke up thinking about this stuff from days gone by, so consider these notes to myself. From a Simple Explanation of Hegel’s (1770 – 1831) Dialetic by Tanasije Gjorgoski The analogy would work with the notions of “Left” and “Right”…. There is nothing that distinguishes them internally. The half-space that we named Left can be Right, and [...]
Tweet Connor: Now you will receive us. Murphy: We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry. Connor: We do not want your tired and sick. Murphy: It is your corrupt we claim. Connor: It is your evil that will be sought by us. Murphy: With every breath we shall hunt them down. Connor: [...]
Tweet “Let your feet touch the ground. Let your eyes touch the sky.” “I recently realized why people, why there is this saying, you kinda need to look up more. Only now ya, am 28, only now starting to realize a couple of important things in my life. And one of them is looking up. [...]
Tweet There’s two kinds of people. Those who give and those who take. … It’s OK… don’t mind if I prattle on do you? …. Two types Fergus. The Scorpion and the frog. Ever heard of em? No. A scorpion wants to cross the river but he can’t swim. He goes to a frog who [...]
Tweet “When the hunger returns” – unknown
Tweet “In war communication is the key to success. And radio equipment along with specialized training for soldiers is expensive. To be successful , the General has decided to consolidate all radio operators into the same platoon during combat missions.” - anonymous
Tweet “There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.” – Deuteronomy 15:11
Tweet “There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, [...]
Tweet “The whole new regulatory reform is a joke,” he said. ‘The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.” – Bernie Madoff
Tweet “The truth is that when everyone and everything is special, ordinary is the only thing that really stands out.” - Erica
Tweet “The plan is nothing. Planning is everything. The enemy has a brain.” – Rumsfeld quoting Eisenhower