Our Favorite Quotes

[PeacefulWarrior]

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant

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"Do you understand the actual problem, or are you guessing?"
- Marc Macyoung
"Taking it to the Street: making your martial art street effective"

[muzza]

"All you have to do is decided what to do with the time given to you" - Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)

-- Muzza

[Tracy]

"Master the perception principle.  Learn to know yourself.  Know the real person deep within you."

"An effective technique in developing a peaceful mind is the daily practice of silence.  Begin to listen for the deeper sounds of harmony and beauty that are to be found in the essence of silence."

Quotes by Norman Peale

[IAmMe]

Your Focus Determines Your Reality

Unknown Author

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[PeacefulWarrior]

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." Abraham Lincoln

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody" - Bill Cosby

Wisdom comes privately from God as a by-product of right decisions, godly reactions and the application of scriptural principles to daily circumstances. - Charles Swindoll

"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Fedex Corp.)

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't even got through college yet.'"

--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his

and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. -Winston Churchill

At a speech at the American Sports Awards Banquet Jim Valvono, the former North Carolina State Basketball coach and NCAA champion became aware of the flashing light signaling that he only had 30 seconds to close his remarks. He looked up and laughed and said, "I've got tumors all over my body and I'm going to worry about some guy flashing a message that I've only got 30 seconds?"

"One of the signs of impending mental breakdown is the belief that your work is terribly important."

The major challenges of our times are increasing tolerance to individual differences without damaging the values that have built this nation and preserving respect for the God-given power of authority without infringing upon the rights of the individual. - RCB

A lie is not the truth, but the truth can be made up, if you know how - Lily Tomlin

Do not expect to be applauded when you do the right thing, and do not expect to be forgiven when you err. But even your enemies will respect commitment - and a conscience at peace is worth more than a thousand tainted victories. Bail Organa (Princess Leia's father in Star Wars) words by author Michael Kube-McDowell

On a tombstone: "I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK"

Lederer in Time to Heal states that physicians are a product of the society that we live in. We live in a society of instant gratification. Few if any want to accept responsibility for their actions. Good patient care demands constant vigilance on the part of patient and physician. Often, in the process of good care, doctors and patients will be at odds with one another. I like what Lee Golusinski, MD had to say:

"When patients get upset and say I am being parental and coercive by doing this, I remind them that there are three names on each bottle of medication: the patient's, mine, and the pharmacist. We all have responsibilities on this team, and if one of us is not meeting those responsibilities (such as monitoring INRs for patients on coumadin), I will not take on the risk they bring by not meeting their responsibilities."

"Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker." Amarillo Slim



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[PeacefulWarrior]

I love Thoreau!  Here are some quotes I think some of you will appreciate:

Thoreau Quotes
from the random Thoreau quote generator at
http://www.psymon.com/walden/


Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
from the chapter "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" in Walden

contributed by Ron Koster



As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Kirk McElhearn



If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by Matt Ames



Though I am old enough to have discovered that
the dreams of youth are not to be realized in this state of existence
yet I think it would be the next greatest happiness always to be allowed
to look under the eyelids of time and contemplate the perfect steadily
with the clear understanding that I do not attain to it.
from the Journal (October 24, 1843)

contributed by Kirk McElhearn



I had three pieces of limestone on my desk,
but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily,
when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still,
and threw them out the window in disgust.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Ken Winchenbach Walden



To be awake is to be alive.
from the chapter "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" in Walden

contributed by Ann Woodlief



Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing
along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever.
The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God,
and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
from a letter to Lucy Brown dated March 2, 1842,
following the death of Thoreau's brother

contributed by Sue Petrovski



My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers,
which, however, I did not promise to do.
Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partition
shouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, "Think of it!
He stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak,
and he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers."
from the Journal (March 28, 1853)

contributed by Gary Robertson



I learned this, at least, by my experiment;
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by Austin Meredith



If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by Austin Meredith



Some circumstantial evidence is very strong,
as when you find a trout in the milk.
from the Journal (c. November 11-14, 1850)

contributed by Bob Lucas



The frontiers are not east or west, north or south,
but wherever a man "fronts" a fact.
from the chapter "Thursday"
in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

contributed by Gary Robertson



Live free, child of the mist,
-- and with respect to knowledge we are all
children of the mist.
From the essay Walking

contributed by Gary Robertson



In any weather, at any hour of the day or night,
I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too;
to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future,
which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.
from the chapter "Economy"
in Walden

contributed by Ron Koster



As surely as the sunset in my latest November
shall translate me to the ethereal world,
and remind me of the ruddy morning of youth;
as surely as the last strain of music which falls on my decaying ear
shall make age to be forgotten,
or, in short, the manifold influences of nature
survive during the term of our natural life,
so surely my Friend shall forever be my Friend,
and reflect a ray of God to me,
and time shall foster and adorn and consecrate our Friendship,
no less than the ruins of temples.
from the chapter "Wednesday"
in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

contributed by Ron Koster



I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Josh Randall



The fact which the politician faces is merely that
there is less honor among thieves than was supposed,
and not the fact that they are thieves.
from Slavery in Massachusetts

contributed by Richard Lenat



Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves,
dispel the clouds which hang over our brows,
and take up a little life into our pores.
Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor,
but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by John Dempsey



I have a great deal of company in my house;
especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
from the chapter "Solitude" in Walden

contributed by Christopher Ryan Murphy



In the streets and in society I am almost invariably
cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean.
No amount of gold or respectability would in the least
redeem it,-- dining with the Governor or a member of Congress!!
But alone in the distant woods or fields,
in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits,
even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, like this,
when a villager would be thinking of his inn,
I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related,
and that cold and solitude are friends of mine.
I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent
to what others get by churchgoing and prayer.
I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are,
grand and beautiful. I have told many that I walk every day
about half the daylight, but I think they do not believe it.
I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America,
out of my head and be sane a part of every day.
from the Journal (January 7, 1857)

contributed by Sonya Welter



A man is rich in proportion tothe number of things
which he can afford to let alone.
from the chapter "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" in Walden

contributed by Tony Carleo



I should not talk so much about myself
if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Casey Shane Sowers



I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger
who approached his master's premises with clothes on,
but was easily quieted by a naked thief.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Nathan Wagner



A writer who does not speak out of a full experience
uses torpid words, wooden or lifeless words, such words as "humanitary,"
which have a paralysis in their tails.
from the Journal (July 14, 1852)

contributed by Richard Dillman



I have always been regretting that I was not as wise
as the day I was born.
from the chapter "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" in Walden

contributed by Gail Valker



However mean your life is, meet it and live it;
do not shun it and call it hard names.
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by Sydney Rosen



An efficient and valuable man does what he can,
whether the community pay him for it or not.
The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder,
and are forever expecting to be put in office.
from Life without Principle

contributed by Mark Heiden



The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground,
a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world.
It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land
are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar.
Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam,
it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.
from the chapter "The Sea And The Desert" in Cape Cod

contributed by Robert Vasselli



To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts,
nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live
according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence,
magnanimity, and trust.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Richard Dean Banton



The physiologist says it [ripening of fruit] is "due to an increased absorption of oxygen."
That is the scientific account of the matter, -- only a reassertion of the fact.
But I am more interested in the rosy cheek than I am to know
what particular diet the maiden fed on.
from Chapter 1 of Autumnal Tints

contributed by Bill Hanna



I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture,
but I had not made it worth anyone's while to buy them.
Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them,
and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets,
I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Alfred La Pointe



Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty,
as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
from the Journal (June 20, 1840)

contributed by Patricia Anne Kuniega



Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields,
not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
From the essay Walking

contributed by Randy Porter



The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad,
and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Richard Lenat



A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.
It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures
the depth of his own nature.
from the chapter "The Ponds" in Walden

contributed by Eric Brown



In the days before his death,
his Aunt Louisa asked him if he had made his peace with God.
His answer was "I did not know we had ever quarrelled, Aunt."
from the Harding and Richardson biographies

contributed by Paul Edward Draper



We linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood,
and they are half forgotten ere we have learned the language.
from the chapter "Friday"
in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

contributed by Kenneth Bass



I will send the light-colored trout and the pickerel with the longer snout,
which is our large one, when I meet with them. I have set a price upon the heads
of snapping turtles, though it is late in the season to get them.
To Elliot Cabot, 1 June 1847, in Correspondence

contributed by Wallace Kaufman



Say what you have to say, not what you ought.
Any truth is better than make-believe.
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by Christopher David Greiner



It is a rare qualification to be ale to state a fact simply and adequately.
To digest some experience cleanly.
To say yes and no with authority--To make a square edge.
To conceive & suffer the truth to pass through us living & and intact....
Say it and have done with it. Express it without expressing ourself.
See not with the eye of science -- which is barren --
nor of youthful poetry which is impotent.
from the Journal (November 1, 1851)

contributed by Wallace Kaufman



As in old times they who dwelt on the heath
remote from towns were backward to adopt the doctrines
which prevailed there, and were therefore called heathen
in a bad sense, so we dwellers in the huckleberry pastures,
which are our heath lands, are slow to adopt the notions
of large towns and cities and may perchance be
nicknamed huckleberry people.
from the Journal (December 30, 1860)

contributed by Gary Robertson



Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by John Butkis



You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods
that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
from the chapter "Brute Neighbors" in Walden

contributed by Kevin Patrick Connor



I should not talk so much about myself
if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness
of my experience.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Ron Faraday





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[PeacefulWarrior]

The Top 10 Movie Quotes
How Many Do You Know?
(According to The Guinness Book of Film)

1. "...Bond. James Bond."

2. "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

3. "Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men."

4. "I'll be back."

5. "Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?"

6. "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get."

7. "I could dance with you till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows when you came home."

8. "Frankly, my dear. I don't give a damn."

9. "You talkin' to me?"

10. "Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side...and don't be stingy, baby."

The most common line in all movies, surveying all Hollywood films from the late 30s to the mid 70s was: "Let's get out of here!"

[Anonymous]

"Let your service to others be secret and automatic" -Unknown

"The problem with the rat race is, even if you win, you're still a rat" -Unknown

"Society is the hobgoblin of little minds, adorned by little statesmen, philosophers, and divine." -R.W. Emerson

"The meaning of life is live, but the meaning of live is more complex."
-My kung fu teacher

"Attack with spoons."
-Mata's magic eight-ball (www.matazone.co.uk)

"Try applying a stout stick."
-Mata's magic eight-ball (www.matazone.co.uk)

"Shackles of gold are still shackles."
-Unknown

[panabelle]

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."
-William Allen White

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-George Elliot

"'How do you milk a venemous two foot lizard?' he wondered. 'Why?'"
-The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan

"Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?"
-The Fires of Heaven also by Robert Jordan

"You may laugh because I'm different, but I laugh because you're all the same."
-Unknown

"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got..."
-Soak Up the Sun, sung by Sheryl Crow

"To save us both time, assume I know everything."
-Keychain

Hitchhiker is the BEST source for really funny quotes when taken out of context. Or when in context. []

[PeacefulWarrior]

The following was taken from the 12 Monkeys film script.  Jeffrey is Brad Pitt's character and Cole is Bruce Willis.  THose of you who have seen this might get a laugh out of the following, if not, oh well, at least I did  (by the way, if you haven't seen this film, check it out, it's great!)

JEFFREY
Why don't I escape, that's what you
were going to ask me, right?  'Cause
I'd be crazy to escape!  I'm all taken
care of, see?  I've sent out word.
COLE
What's that mean?

JEFFREY
I've managed to contact certain underlings,
evil spirits, secretaries of secretaries, and
assorted minions, who will contact my father.
When he learns I'm in this kind of place,
classy joints where they treat you...properly.

LIKE A GUEST!  LIKE A PERSON!  SHEETS!
TOWELS!  LIKE A BIG HOTEL WITH GREAT DRUGS
FOR THE NUT CASE LUNATIC MANIAC DEVILS...

[PeacefulWarrior]

Audi, R. 1992. Objective/Subjective. A Companion to Epistemology. J. Dancy and E. Sosa. Oxford, Blackwell: 309-310.

"The contrast between the subjective and the objective is made in both the epistemic and the ontological domains. In the former it is often identified with the distinction between the *intra*personal and the *inter*personal, or with that between matters whose resolution depends on the psychology of the person in question and those not thus dependent, or, sometimes, with the distinction between the biased and the impartial. Thus an objective question might be one answerable by a method usable by any competent investigator, while a subjective question would be answerable only from the questioner's point of view. In the ontological domain, the subjective-objective contrast is often between what is and what is not mind-dependent; secondary qualities, e.g., colours, have been thought subjective owing to their apparent variability with observation conditions. The truth of a proposition, for instance (apart from certain propositions about oneself), would be objective if it is independent of the perspective, especially the beliefs of those judging it. Truth would be subjective if it lacks such independence, say because it is a construct from justified beliefs, e.g. those well-confirmed by observations."

Chew on dat!

[Herro]

"Try Beliveing me"
-Duo

"If it still hurts that means you alive"
-unknown

"have you ever been sniped by a rocket?"
-me

[Bob251]

Hmm, I can't remember if this is right or not, but here goes:
"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.  He won by making other poor bastards die for their countries."
-George Patton (once again, I think)

And, of course, I have to put in some Homer qutoes []:
"I'm tired of being a wannabe league bowler.  I wanna be a league bowler!"

"Homer no function beer well without."

[Anonymous]

"You can hit a man, you can punch a man, but for some reason, you just can't slap him."

-The Simpsons

[seekenergyaz]

Hi

Actually Enderwiggin, I kind of like the quotes in your signature file:

quote:Originally posted by EnderWiggin

If you're going through Hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill

The soul of any plant or creature is not something to disregard or disrespect.

"I live by the adage 'know thy enemy;' that is why I have so painstakingly analyzed who I am."

[seekenergyaz]

Here are a few I've either collected or otherwise have on hand:


The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is fear.
--Gandhi

Mastering others requires force;
Mastering the self requires enlightenment.
--Lao Tzu

What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
--Henry David Thoreau

I've lived through many terrible things in my life,
some of which have actually happened.
--Mark Twain

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
--Thomas Edison

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
--William Blake

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.
--Joseph Campbell

If at first you don't succeed; try, try again. Then quit.  No use being a fool about it."
--W. C. Fields

There are three kinds of men: The one's that learn by reading, the few
who learn by observation...the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
--Will Rogers

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man.
The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.    
--Samuel Johnson

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
--Saul Bellow

Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from wise men.
--Marcus Porcius Cato

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
--Theodore Roosevelt

[panabelle]

Douglas Adams Book Quotes:

"`You know,' said Arthur, `it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.'
`Why, what did she tell you?'
`I don't know, I didn't listen.'"

"`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'"

"`If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.'"

"`In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were REAL men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Aplha Centauri.'"

"`My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.'"

"He believed in a door. He must find that door. The door was the way to... to...
The Door was The Way.
Good.
Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to."

[Oliver]

"Fear, its like this fire, burning inside of you. If you control it, it will make you HOT! But if you let it control you, it will burn you up." - Rocky IV

"I was suppose to be going to the shop to get bread for my family,
but on my way to the shop, it started raining and I discovered the
love of playing in the rain. Not until the wind blew away the rain
clouds, and the sun came out was it that I realised, I couldn't spend all my time playing in the rain when there was bread to get, so I resumed going to the shop. When the rain clouds come back, I will be able to play in the rain again, but I won't be able to stop and play in the rain, I can only play in the rain, on my way."

"Love is a companion"

Oliver []

[PeacefulWarrior]

I love little snippets of wisdom, love and humor.  I thought it would be interesting and fun to start a collection of our quotes and ideas.  Please share with everyone those quotes, stories, phrases, etc. that you hold dear.
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     Ralph Waldo Emerson

                           "None of us will ever
                           accomplish anything excellent
                           or commanding except when
                           he listens to this whisper which
                           is heard by him alone."
                           -- "Greatness," Letters and Social
                           Aims, 1835 ]

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