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Sunday, March 27, 2016

March 2016 Quotations (60)

“Time management is dead; in our day the true struggle is focus management.”
~~ Dave Crenshaw

"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
~~ Anton Chekhov [1860-1904]

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put."
~~ Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]

"The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles."
~~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis [1856-1941]

"Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility."
~~ screenwriter Dalton Trumbo [1905-76]

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end, then stop."
~~ Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) [1832-98]

"What they didn't realize is that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time."
~~ Doris Lessing [1919-2013]

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it."
~~ Frank Herbert [1920-86]

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]

"I agree that there are things that should be kept secret."
~~ Daniel Ellsberg

“Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.”
~~ Jessi Lane Adams

“To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.”
~~ Greek philosopher Plato [427-347 BCE]

"The true solace for all private troubles is to lose yourself in your work."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]

“Nothing has really happened until it has been described.”
~~ British author Virginia Woolf [1882-1941]

"What the billionaire class has yet to realize is that in this election, their obscene wealth is their weakness."
~~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"American police officers are in need of mental health therapy and the entire law enforcement system is in need of reevaluation."
~~ Leslie Salzillo

"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."
~~ journalist Ida B. Wells [1862-1931]

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants are dead."
~~ Erma Bombeck [1927-96]

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
~~ Edward Irving 'Ed' Koch [1924-2013], quoting John F. Kennedy

"When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking."
~~ Gail Sheehy

"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
~~ Lenny Bruce [1925-66]

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
~~ Charles Dickens [1812-70]

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."
~~ Eckhart Tolle

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."
~~ William James [1842-1910]

"Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [an] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality."
~~ philosopher Ayn Rand [1905-82]

"You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied."
~~ R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]

"I am proud that the gentleman who is head of Goldman Sachs ... said I was dangerous. And he is right, I am dangerous for Wall Street."
~~ Sen. Bernie Sanders, at the 9 March 2016 debate

”To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”
~~ Walt Whitman [1819-92]

"Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion."
~~ comic actress Tina Fey

"Life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose in older people, the love of youth in others."
~~ F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
~~ Pablo Picasso [1881-1973]

"To love without knowing how to love wounds the person [that] we love."
~~ Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh

"A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe [that] the image is herself. An ugly woman knows [that] it is not."
~~ Simone Weil [1909-43]

"It is the curse of the competent not to be called upon."
~~ poet-songwriter Robert Priest

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."
~~ U.C.L.A. coach John R. Wooden [1910-2010]

"To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift."
~~ Steve Prefontaine [1951-75]

"No matter how involved you are in what you do, no matter how many hours a week you devote to your career pursuits, you must always remember that your family is your primary team."
~~ 'Coach K' {Michael William Krzyzewski}

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
~~ Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower [1890-1969]

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."
~~ H.L. Mencken [1880-1956]

"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical science-fiction cowboy detective novel."
~~ Alan Moore

"Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions."
~~ Pico Iyer, in "The Art of Stillness", 2014

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
~~ Jonathan Swift [1667–1745]

"Don't judge each day by the harvest [that] you reap, but by the seeds [that] you plant."
~~ Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-94]

“An empty coffee cup is full of hope. Now there’s something worth voting for.”
~~ Jarod Kintz

"I often find writer's block a sign that you're actually writing the wrong story."
~~ Mark Millar

"God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion."
~~ Pliny the Elder {Gaius Plinius Secundus [c. AD 23 – AD 79]}

"Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting."
~~ Larry Page, co-founder of Google, Inc.

"If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot."
~~ Irish playwright Samuel Beckett [1906-89]

"Time and silence are the most luxurious things today."
~~ Tom Ford

"There's no 'right' way to write a book. I simply write to find out what I have to write."
~~ Cheryl Strayed

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
~~ Pablo Picasso [1881-1973]

"Books fall open, you fall in."
~~ David McCord [1897-1997]

"All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen."
~~ playwright Arthur Miller [1915-2005]

"What are games but life reduced to symbolic rituals."
~~ mystery author D.R. Meredith

"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."
~~ Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88]

"A lover of books is always in good company."
~~ G.E. Nordell

"No brains, no headaches."
~~ Steve Roach

"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
~~ Ronald Reagan [1911-2004]

"Your life works to the degree [that] you keep your agreements."
~~ Werner Erhard

"I write for the same reason that I breathe – because if I did not I would die."
~~ Isaac Asimov [1920-92]

{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}

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