Quotes Compiled - Anonymous "Don't be afraid to be yourself, the right people will appreciate your authenticity." ~~ Anonymous / Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong. / / Anonymous / "Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world." / Anonymous / "Deep conversations with the right people are priceless." / Anonymous / "Look back and be grateful, Look forward and be hopeful, Look around and be helpful.: ~~ Anonymomous "Life is not qualified by fluent English, branded clothes or a rich lifestyle. It is measured by the number of faces who smile when they hear your name. ~~ Anonymous "The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see." ~~ Anonymous "A world afraid of questions is a world afraid of progress." / Anonymous / "Wise men learn from fools than fools from the wise." ~~ Anonymmous "A toxic environment is more likely to change you than you change it. Get out of it." / Anonymous / "Excuses make today easy but make tomorrow hard. Discipline makes today hard bit it make tomorrrow easy." ~~ Anonymous "A clown on a thrown is still a clown... ... a king in rags is still a king..." ~~ Anonymous "Look back. Move forward." -- Anonymous "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." / Anonymous / "Discipline is doing what needs to be done, even if you don't want to do it." ~~ Anonymous "A book is not just a collection of pages; it's a passport to other worlds, a time machine, and a lifelong companion." / Anonymous / "Everyone is a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough to have a totally separate environment to run in." ~~ Anonymous - IT guy "You can't control the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails." ~~ Anonymous "When you read a line that is so well-written, you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute." ~~ Anonymous "Two things define you, your patience when you have nothing, your attitude when you have everything." ~~ Anonymous "If you get tired, learn to rest, don't quit." ~~` Anonymous "Life is understood looking backwards but it must be lived looking forward." -- Anonymous A wise person once told me "let people do what they wanna do, so you see what they'd rather do." That'll answer all the questions you have. ~~ Anonymous What the elders see, others can't see while standing on their toes. ~~ Anonymous "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart." ~~ Anonymous "When you want to give up, remember why you started." ~~ Anonymous =-=-=-=-=-= "Just learn how to get stuff done. / Barack Obama / "Power lies not in what you say, but what you do." / Barack Obama / =-=-=-=-=-= "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." / Benjamin Franklin / "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." / Benjamin Franklin / "Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75." ~~ Benjamin Franklin "Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship." ~~ Benjamin Franklin "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." / Benjamin Franklin / =-=-=-=-=-= "Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." -- Bernard Shaw =-=-=-=-=-= Who with the wolf associates, to howl learns. Bulgarian Proverb =-=-=-=-=-= "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." / Celtic / =-=-=-=-=-= "Tai Chi is swimming on land." / Cheng Man Ching / =-=-=-=-=-= "To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say." / Descartes / =-=-=-=-=-= "By desiting little, a poor man makes himself rich." / Democritus / =-=-=-=-=-= "It takes a wise man to discover a wise man." / Diogenes / =-=-=-=-=-= "Trust yourself and your instincts. Sometimes you are your best teacher. / Donnie Yen / =-=-=-=-=-= "People carry their own downfall terough their own tongues." / Egyptian Proverb / "The man that helps others will be helped by others in his time of need." / Egyptian Proverb / "If the Master taught his disciple what is an error, the disciple'cs compliance will be slavery but if he teaches reality the submission is enoblement." / Egyptian Proverb / =-=-=-=-=-= "He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another." / Epicurius / =-=-=-=-=-= "The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life". ~~ Frank Zappa ~~ =-=-=-=-=-= "Education is not something you can finish." -- Issac Asimov =-=-=-=-=-= "Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." ~~ Isaac Newton =-=-=-=-=-= "At the end of teh game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." ~~ Italian Proverb =-=-=-=-=-= "Life is not always a matter of holding goods cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." -- Jack London =-=-=-=-=-= "People without a sense of humour should not be allowed to decide what people with a sense of humour are allowed to laugh at. It would be like allowing colour-blind people to decide which colours should be on a colour chart." / John Cleese / What makes the most creative people different? ?? They have the ability to play. To explore ideas not for any immediate practical purpose but for pure enjoyment. Play for its own sake. / John Cleese / =-=-=-=-=-= "Never build, but alwys plant: in the case of the first, nature will destroy the creation of your work, but in the case of the second, nature will help you, causing growth in everything you planted." ~~ Leo Tolstoy ~~ =-=-=-=-=-= "Success lies in relentless execution of the basics." / Leonard da Vinci / "In nature there is no effect without cause; once the cause is understood there is no need to test it by experience." / Leonardo da Vinci / "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." ~~ Leonardo Da Vinci "Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." -- Leonardo da Vinci "Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." ~~ Leonardo da Vinci "Learning never exhausts the mind." ~~ Leonardo Da Vinci =-=-=-=-=-= "Accept everything just the way it is" ~~ Miyamoto =-=-=-=-=-= “The moment anyone accepts favors, he is in debt to the one granting them. Sooner or later the debt must be paid." / Napoleon Hill / "Good credit is a great asset provided it is not overused." ~~ Napoleon Hill "A truly big man never tries to impress others with his bigness and never tries to keep up with the Joneses." ~~ Napoleon Hill "Self-praise is a credit only when it consists of deeds helpful to others and not of mere words." -- Napoleon Hill -- "No man ever becomes so successful that he doesn’t appreciate a kindly word of commendation for work well done." / Napoleon Hill / "You can always tell a man who thinks he is smarter than others, but you can’t tell him much." ~~ Napoleon Hill ~~ "The man who listens more than he talks generally knows more than the man who talks more than he listens." -- Napoleon Hill "Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." / Napoleon Hill / "A temper is a good thing to have provided one does not try to give it to someone else." ~~ Napoleon Hill ~~ "If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it—write it in the sand near the water’s edge." ~~ Napoleon Hill ~~ =-=-=-=-=-= "Your fist should remain hidden up your sleeve until somebody comes looking for it." -- Okinawan proverb -- =-=-=-=-=-= "The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience." / Paracelsus / =-=-=-=-=-= "We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us." / Quintilian / "Quintilian, Latin Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, (born AD 35, Calagurris Nassica, Hispania Tarraconensis—died after 96, Rome), Latin teacher and writer. Quintilian was probably educated and trained in oratory in Rome. From about 68 to 88 he taught rhetoric, becoming Rome’s leading teacher, and was an eminent advocate in the law courts. His Institutio oratoria is a practical survey of rhetoric in 12 books and a major contribution to educational theory and literary criticism. His dual emphasis on intellectual and moral training appealed to humanists of the 15th–16th centuries and through them influenced the modern view of education as all-around character training to equip a student for life." (Britannica) . "Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory)". Book by Quintilian (Book VIII, Chapter II), circa 95 AD. =-=-=-=-=-= "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." -- Rene Descartes -- =-=-=-=-=-= "Learn, unlearn, relearn: Growth is a journey, embrace change, step beyond your comfort zone, evolve your understanding." / ShuriDojo / =-=-=-=-=-= "Quiet people have the loudest mind." / Stephen Hawking / =-=-=-=-=-= "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." / Theodore Rossevelt / =-=-=-=-=-= "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." / Thomas A. Edison / =-=-=-=-=-= "The scret to living well and longer is eat half, walk double, laught triple and love without measure." ~~ Tibetan Proverb =-=-=-=-=-= "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we can speak." / Zeno / =-=-=-=-=-=