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srijeda, 31.03.2010.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

People fail forward to success.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

31.03.2010. u 07:48 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

31.03.2010. u 07:45 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

31.03.2010. u 07:37 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

31.03.2010. u 06:52 • 1 Komentara • Print • #

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Worries go down better with soup than without.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

31.03.2010. u 04:48 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

31.03.2010. u 04:15 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Art is science made clear.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

31.03.2010. u 04:12 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

četvrtak, 18.03.2010.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

18.03.2010. u 07:12 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

18.03.2010. u 06:11 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

18.03.2010. u 05:10 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within...

We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

18.03.2010. u 04:09 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

18.03.2010. u 03:09 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

18.03.2010. u 02:08 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

18.03.2010. u 01:09 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

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