Famous Quotes

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Laurence J. Peter:

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

H. L. Mencken:

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

Baltasar Gracian:

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Dorothea Brande:

The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago.

Bertrand Russell:

Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

Lenin:

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Solon:

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

L. M. K. Boelter, 1957:

Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.

Tom Stoppard:

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Mark Twain:

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.

James Thurber:

There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Ernest Dimnet:

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.