..Quote of the day.. ธันวาคม 31, 2007

"Keep away from people who try to be little your ambitions. Small people always do that,

but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~ Mark Twain ~

• "Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." ~ Doris Lessing ~

• "Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom." ~ Walter Benjamin ~

• "Only the mediocre are always at their best." ~ Jean Giraudoux ~

• "Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be" ~ Daniel J. Boorstin ~

• "Ability is a poor man's wealth." ~ John Wooden ~

• "Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees." ~ Earl Warren ~

• "It is not how old you are, but how you are old." ~ Jules Renard ~

• "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." ~ George S. Patton ~

• "The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions." ~ Mike Krzyzewski ~

• "If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."  ~ Katharine ~

• "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."  ~ Bernard Baruch ~

• "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."  ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson ~

• "Let him that would move the world first move himself." ~ Socrates ~

• "Dreams are necessary to life." ~ Anais Nin ~

• "Life is half spent before we know what it is."  ~ George Herbert ~

• "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."  ~ John Lennon ~

• "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."  ~ Thomas A. Edison ~

• "We are what we believe we are."  ~ C. S. Lewis ~

• "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."  ~ Henry A. Kissinger ~

• "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. " ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas ~

• "Every noble work is at first impossible."  ~ Thomas Carlyle  ~

• "It is said that the present is pregnant with the future."  ~  Voltaire ~

• "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."  ~ William Hazlitt ~

• "Knowledge is power."  ~ Francis Bacon ~

• "Man is by nature a political animal."  ~ Aristotle ~

• "The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government."  ~ Henry Ward  ~

• "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."  ~  Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

• "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."  ~ Kahlil Gibran ~

• "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."  ~ John F. Kennedy ~

• "There is no wealth but life."  ~  John Ruskin ~

• "Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."  ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower ~

• "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."  ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~

• "Fortune favours the bold."  ~ Virgil ~

• "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."  ~ Josh Billings ~

• "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."  ~  Arthur Schopenhauer ~

• What if one split second sent your life in two completely different direction?  ~ Bourgeoise - Daisy ~

• "A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements."  ~ Bo Bennett ~

• "That government is best which governs least."  ~ Thomas Paine ~

• "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."  ~ Sigmund Freud ~

• "The truth is more important than the facts."  ~ Frank Lloyd Wright ~

• "Only the educated are free."  ~ Epictetus ~

• "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."  ~  Woodrow ~ 

• "Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."  ~ Vince Lombardi ~

• "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."  ~  Aesop ~

• "Lead, follow, or get out of the way."  ~ Laurence J. Peter ~

• "The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."  ~ John N. Mitchell ~

• "Success is a journey, not a destination."  ~ Ben Sweetland ~

• "Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."  ~ Paul Engle ~

• "First thoughts are not always the best."  ~ Vittorio Alfieri ~

• "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."  ~ A. J. Liebling ~

• "I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."  ~ Paul Harvey ~

• "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."  ~ B. F. Skinner ~

• "I am certain there is too much certainy in the world."  ~ Michael Crichton ~

• "First thoughts are not always the best."  ~  Vittorio Alfieri ~

• "There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."  ~ Stephen Covey ~

• "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."  ~ Marie Curie ~

• "The less you talk, the more you're listened to."  ~ Abigail Van Buren ~

• "The way to succeed is to double your error rate."  ~ Thomas J. Watson ~

• "When one teaches, two learn."  ~ Robert Half ~

• "The purpose of life is a life of purpose."  ~ Robert Byrne ~

• "Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues."  ~ George Will ~

• "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."  ~ Carl Sagan ~

• "Good government is good politics."  ~ Richard J. Daley ~

• "A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." ~ Barry Goldwater ~

• "When all is said and done, more is said than done." ~ Lou Holtz ~

• "We are the hero of our own story." ~ Mary McCarthy ~

• "Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it." ~ Edward de Bono ~

• "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." ~ Arthur C. Clarke ~

• "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." ~ John Muir ~

• "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." ~ A. A. Milne ~

• "God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart." ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

• "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." ~ Aristotle Onassis ~

• "You create your opportunities by asking for them." ~ Shakti Gawain ~

• "Life is a succession of moments, To live each one is to succeed." ~ Corita Kent ~

• "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." - Arnold H. Glasow

• "Fortune favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

• "The less you know, the more you believe." - Bono

• "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." - Niels Bohr

• "Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art." - Stanislaw Lec

• "Be who you are and be that well." - Saint Francis de Sales

• "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin

• "The future has a way of arriving unannounced." - George Will

• "The more you can dream, the more you can do." - Michael Korda

• "You are remembered for the rules you break." - Douglas MacArthur

• "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." - Les Brown

• "Failure is success if we learn from it." - Malcolm Forbes

• "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney

• "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." - Herman Melville

• "Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward." - Soren Kierkegaard

• "Youth has no age." - Pablo Picasso

• "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." - Confucius

• "Order is power." - Henri Frederic Amiel

"Don't fight forces, use them." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." - Laurence J. Peter

"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration." - Thomas A. Edison

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H. G. Wells

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins

"I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated." - Dionne Warwick

"I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step."
 - Tommy Bolin

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself." - Andre Gide

"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion." - Anatole France

"That government is best which governs least." - Thomas Paine

"The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions." - Mike Krzyzewski

"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different." - Peter Drucker

"Nothing will work unless you do." - Maya Angelou

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."  - Carl Sagan

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." - Max Muller

"Love is the crowning grace of humanity." - Petrarch

"I shut my eyes in order to see."  - Paul Gauguin

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."  - Emile Zola

"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."  - Frank Stella

"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone."  - Lucretius

"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."  - Thomas Browne

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."  - John Muir